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Copyright 1887 by The Laning Printing Co. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS.:^ 



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Account Hooks 20-21 Handv Account Book .. 

Admission Tickets 3-10 Hay Tickets 

Annual Report Blanks 21 Horsemen's Badges 

Assistants' Tickets 30 How to Manage Fairs.. 



Badges of Officers 

" Horsemen, 

" Sujjply Wagons,.. 

Baggage Checks 

Bill Fa-stenei-s 

Blackboards 

Board Meetings, Report of.. 

Board Clips 

Boothmen's Tickets 



24 Jockey Caps 

29 

29 Labels for Fruit 

13 Ledgers, etc 

25 Letter Circulars 

29 Lettter Copying Book. 

21 Letter Files". , 

.30 Letter Heads 

6-9 Limited Tickets 



Carriage Badges 

Certificates of Stock 

Changes in Tickets 

' ' Premium C'ards 

Circular Letters 

Coin Wrappers 

Colored Tags 

Committee Books 

Commutation Tickets 

Complimentaries 

Consecutive Numbering 

Copying Books 

Coupon Tickets 



Daters, 

Diplomas 

Discounts 3d pp. 

Door Indicator 

Economic Account Book 

Entry Blanks, Fairs 

" " Poultry 

" " Races 

Entry Books 

" " Poultiy 

En t ry Tags 

Envelopes, Commercial 

" Premium List 

Exhibitor's Tickets 

Express Charges 3d pp. 



Family Tickets... 
Files for Letters. 
Fountain Pens,... 
Fruit Labels 



29 
21 
3-4 
14 
22 
30 
13 
11 
6 



32 

8-9 

31 

15 

Cover 

30 

20 

11 

26 

27 

11 

11,26 

12,26 

22 

23 

6-9 

Cover 



Meal Tickets 

Medals 

Membership Tickets... 

Merchandise Tags 

Model Dater 

Model Premium List. 



Novelty Paper Fastener. 



Officers' Badges 

Official Record 

Office Stationery.... 
Orders on Treasurv. 



Grand Stand Tickets & Pa.sses. 
General Fund Orders 



19 



Paper Clips 

Paper Fasteners 

Parcel Checks 

Pas.ses 

Paying-in Vouchers 

Pay Roll of Awards 

Pen Racks 

Places Using Safety Tickets... 

Poi n t J udging 

Points to ( )bserve in Ordering 

Police Badges 

Poultry Entry Books 

" ■ " ' Blanks 

Poultry Shows 

Posters 

Premium Cards 

Medals 

Ribbons 

Orders 

" Statements 

Premium Lists 

" " Envelopes 

" " Wrappers 

I'ri v iloge Receipts 




20 

9 

29 

21 

29 

25 
21 
22 
32 
32 
22 
6 

3. 
15 
6-9 
13 
30 
23 

30 

24 
21 
22 
19 

30 
30 
13 

3 
17 
16 
81 

5 
25 
5,7 
24 
11, 17 
26 
17 
24 
14 
15 
15 
1!) 
16 
23 
23 
23 
IS 



Privilege Contracts 
Programs of Races. 



Race Entry Blanks 

Ready Print Tags 

Receipts, Ordinary 

" Tickets Delivered... 
Record of Board Meetings!.... 

Record of Races 

Register of Ticket Sales 

Renter's Permits 

" Receipts 

" Contracts 

Report Blanks 

Report of Premiums Awarded., 

Ribbons for Premiums 

Rules of Racing 



Safety Tickets 

Score Cards 

" " Poultry 

Single Admission Tickets. 

Special Tickets 

Special Entry Bool- s 

Si)eed Progntrnes 

' ' Records .' 

Stall Placards 

" Notices 

Standards of Excellence.... 
Statements of Accounts.... 

Stock Certificates 

Stockholders' Tickets 

Stringing Tags 

" Badges 

" Premium (."ards. 

Stub Tickets 

Suspension Rings 



Tags 

Ticket Punches... 

' ' Register.. . 
Stock 

" Wording.. 
Tickets— Sinirle. 

" —Safety.. 

" — Season . 

Transfer File 

Treasury Orders. 
Trotting Rules ... 



Vouchers. 



18 



27 
13 
17 
17 
21 
29 
10 
18 
18 
18 
21 
16 
15 
29 

4 
25 
2f> 



11 
27 
27 
25 
25 
25 
19 
21 

6-9 
13 
29 

■ 15 

8 

25 

13 
10 
10 

10 

3 

4 

6-9 

30 

19 

29 

17 



Wrappers for Premium Twists.. 



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Ah we wait until after tKe fair for payment, when it is desired, Societies need not delay their orJers because they have no 
funds on hand to pay with. They can orde/ early and have the benefit?' of discounts to pay transportation charges. 



TO SECRETARIES i^ND OFFICERS OF FAIRS, 

Messes. — The annual round of the seasons again brings us to the time for the necessary contemplation of and 
prL^paration for the festival season of the American people, when they celebrate the glory of American thrift and 
culture, and the wealth of American productions and inventions in the characteristically American agricultural fairs. 

To the managers of these institutions we announce our greeting for the sixth consecutive time, at each of which 
we have been able, profiting by the experience that has gone before, to increase the usefulness of our Annual 
Catalogue by extending the suggestions it contained and enlarging its list of instrumentalities designed to aid them 
in the work of conducting their exhibitions. 

This is the only house in America that makes a specialty of fair goods alone, or has anything like a complete 
line of them, and its success may be attributed to the fact that it was instituted by one who was thoroughly versed 
in the business of conducting fairs and possessed the ingenuity to apply good business principle.? to the establishment 
of proper rules and methods for transaction of their business. Not content, however, with primary success 
during the five years, an aggres.sive study has been made, not only to maintain the prestige already secured, but to 
continue to achieve results that would further add to the popularity of the goods that were being offered for sale. 
How well we have succeed the following pages, supyorted by testimonials from our numerous customers, will testify. 

The prominent features of our goods are their simplicity, accuracy, convenience and labor saving qualities, 
which added to their low price, makes them regarded not only desirable, but indispensible to every energetically 
managed fair. Many of the supplies we oit'er will save the sum we ask for them to the user in a single year, in the 
help otherwise necessary that they will dispense with, and are so simple and conducive to correctness that to those 
who use them an error is next to impossible. They are declared by the testimony of the many societies that use 
them, to be "a long felt want" in the transaction of their business, saving them a large amount of disagreeable toil 
and vexation, and securing them a desirable accuracy they had never before obtained. 

Our goods our offered upon their merits, and an examination of them cannot fail to disclose enough strong 
features to recommend them. Besides we are ambitious to maintain the reputation of this most perfect and econom- 
ical line of fair goods, and our customeis can always rely in givini;- their orders to us, that they will receive excellent 
workmanship, good stock, full count, fair treatment, and prices that are entirely consistent with the work. 

At this modern day the public has learned to have a discriminating taste, and as in any other enterprise, the 
character and capabilities of a society are measured by the methods and materials they employ in the conduct of their 
business. The value of an advertisement whether upon a Poster or Bill, a Letter Head, Envelope, Business Card 
or Ticket, depends largely upon its adaptability and attractiveness, and though the printer have the materials from 
which to make it, and they are not properly used, or if the materials be wanting, or the work coarse or unclean, or 
lacking in style, the favorable impression which appearances should give will be entirely lost. 

The fact that we are doing a large quantity of this kind of work, enables us to know what styles are the most 
popular, and a thoi'ough experience and knowledge of the applicability of the work to the purposes tor which it is to 
be used, fits us for making it in every particular, and our patrons may reasonably expect a superior article of us. 

Our prices, though they may not be as low as may be given by the incompetent amateur, who only asks a 
pittance for his otherwise valueless work, or the cheap printer who uses abominabh' poor ink and paper, and whose 
printing is, if possible, worse, are much lower than are charged by reputable printers throughout the country, for 
the class of work they engage to do. Poorly adapted or inferior work is in no sense economy, and we believe, that 
all business men will deem it better to get a good article of us, at our prize, than to pay a higher price, or any price 
at all for inferior work, elsewhere. 

We are aware that a supposed good policy often induces societies to patronize home printers, and rather than to 
go elsewhere they put up with a very inferior article. But it will be seen that our goods are largely specialties, 
which either local offices are unable to make from want of equipment or stock or dare not make by reason of the sole 
right to print them being vested in us by rea-son of copyrights and patents. For tliis reason our business does not 
greatly conflict with the home printers. Besides this to relieve secretaries and purchasing committees from any 
embarrassment in appearing to antagonize their local printer, we place no imprint upon our goods except such as 
is required to protect our franchises and no one will know the source from which those come that are bought of us. 

Our past dealing with the fairs has been very pleasant to us, especiidly as they have shown a substantial appre- 
ciation of the efforts we have made in their behalf by a liberal purchase of our goods. It is a matter of special 
regard to us that those who have become acquainted with us, and ha\'e used our goods one year have invariably 
returned to us the next, and then with increased orders, a rare testimonial to their substantial character. In our 
last annual catalogue we announced that we had the names of over four hundred societies upon our books as patrons, 
a showing over which we felt gratified. We uow announce with feeliugs of pride, that the number increasediin 
1S86, and now reaches nearly seven hundred, and includes many of the state and large district fairs. East and West, 
tlie managers of which, capable men, are loud in the praise of our goods. 

Our present catalogue contains nearly double the number of pages of any former one, the labdr saving office 
conveniences and appliances as well as several other items being introduced for the first time. 

Our house has been recommended in the past by its patrons, as the best place in the laiul to obt 'in fair goods, 
and we can assure those who have use for such goods that the standard of merit, will not now be lowered. Our 
facilities are ample for dispatching of a large amount of work with promptness, and tho.-^e who send us an order can 
rely upon receiving the courtesies due them. Kespectfully Submitted, 

THE FAIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. 



THE FAIR rUBLISHING HOUSE. 



^UPf LJES FOJ\ /iGJ^jgjJL JURAL f AJR^, 

Admission Tickets of Every Desirable Style and Variety. 



The Revenues of our Fairs~are derived largelj' from fefS~for admission, and unless the Ticket Department is 
properly conducted, the Society can be easily taken advantage of through ignorant or corrupt employees, or dishonest 
patrons, much to its financial loss. Regarding this fact with due importance, and the co-existing fact that the practices 
as to methods of charge and admission differ widely in diflercnt localities, we have given the ticket question a most 
extended study, and have endeavored to devise appropriate forms of ticket to destroy the opportunities for peculation 
and imposition upon the Society, and also such as are fully adequate in extent to meet the demands of the various 
rules and regulations that are in vogue in different places. 

OUR PATRONAGE. 

Oar, trade coming as it does from every quarter of the United States, and embracing in the aggregate two-thirds 
of all the fairs that are held, enables us to become conversant with the different methods of procedure in use, and to 
which added 

OUR EXPERIENCE 

enables us to discern what methods have the best adaptation, what styles are most popular, and what goods are the 
most satisfa'-tory. So much so that we can assure our patrons, that when properly used, our tickets possess in the 
highest degree the very essential qualities of security and accuracy. 

CHARACTER OF TICKET WORK. 

The form and style of execution of our ticket work gives it an iiidlddiicdUn peculiar to itself, by which it can be 
readily distinguished from work of this class done by others. 

The Special Designs we vary each year, give our work a distinctiveness. 

The Ticket Stock, giving the purchaser a wide variety of colors and being adapted to the purpose for which it 
is used, is highly gratifying. 

The, work neatly exeeided in the latest and most ajijiroi^riate styles of type, and in a variety of colors and tints, 
cannot fail to gratify the taste of the most exacting, and these things combined, render 

COUNTERFEITING 

too expensive to be profitable to those who might feel disposed to attemjit to impose upon a society by getting up and 
privately disposing of tickets so similar to theirs that detection is impossible. We also give 

THE LOWE.ST PRICES, 

as by purchasing our stock of card boards, etc., used in them, in large quantities, and having the best of facilities with 
which to work, and an experience that enables us to labor economically, and rapidly, and doing so large an amount of 
it, we are enabled to make the most engaging prices to our customers. Besides we 

EXERCISE THE STRICTEST CARE* 

in filling orders for tickets. No one except our employees are allowed about our press rooms, except under the 
strictest surveilience, and as soon as tickets are printed, they are removed to a private room, and kept closely under 
t'lie supervision of the person in charge, who is made responsible for their Safe Keeping while they are being numbered, 
and «tlier\vise prepared and packed for shipment. 

Tills strictn3.S3 k regarded as necessary to av;)id complaints as to the accuracy in count with which the orders are 
filled, ani to prevent a single one of the tickets g3ttin':; into circulation from improper sources, as they often do, from 
lo-al nHi"es, much to the loss and annoyance of the Societies, through the peculation of employees. 

NEW DE.SIGNS FOR 1887. 

An examination of the acerimpanying sampler, will show new and costly designs that we have .secured to u.^e in 
18^7, entirely changing the identity and ju- jniineutly distinguishiug our tickets from that of former years, as well as 
I'roni tiie work of other printers. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



I^^INGJ^E yiDMl^SIOJV TJCK^TS| 



Societies usually put tickets upon sale at the gates, grand stand, and other places about the grounds where 
money is taken for admission fees, the variety of which includes such as 

General Admission Tickets, Adults and Childs ; Grand Stand Ticket, Horse and Horse and Vehicle 
Tickets, Assistant's Tickets, Meal Tickets, etc. 

The sizes of these tickets can be various, but that given in the accompanying diagram. Form 1, is most used 
and is adopted by us in filling all orders which do not specify something different. 

Form 1, Numbered. 



Form I, Plain Card. 



ADAMS COUNTY FAIR. 

ADMIT ONE. 

SEPTEMBER 16-20, 1880. 

JOHN ADAMS, Sec'y. 



TWO KINDS. 

We make the tickets, Form 1, eitlier 
plaiu or consecutively numbered as may 
be preferred. 

Plain Card. Ihis ticket is like 
tlie form given, and orders for them are 
put up accurately, in bunches of 100 
tickets each . 

Xu-MBEUKD. This ticket is put up 
like the plain card, but each ticket is 
uumbtrcd, the number of tickets form- 



JEFFERSON DRIVING PARK, 

CHILD'S TICKET. ^ 

July 4-7, 1886. 

ANDY JACKSON, Treas. "^ 



Form 2. 



WELCOME HOME 


FAIR. 


-^COMMITTEE 


DINNER 


TICKET'^ 




JAMES PEABODY, President. 



Form 3, Pass. 




STJ MARY'S^ FAIR. 



THIRD DAY. 




Form 4. — Pass. 



GRAND STAND. 

RETUF(N ejHEGK. 

SECOND DAY, SEPT. 9, 1886. 



ing a series, from one to the nuuiber used, s) that 
the number of tickets sold at any time can be seen 
from the uumlier upon the first unsold ticket. The 
number is printed upon the end of the tickets where 
184 appears upon the diagram. 

Societies that desire to keep a riged account with 
their ticket sellers, unless they use our Safety 
Tickets, will find this a convenient ticket, although 
the plain card ticket will answer the same purpose, 
except that the tickets in the bunches are not num- 
bered, and they may also be rebunched and used 
again. These tickets are put up in bunches of 100 
e:ich, eai h ditferi nt form beginuing at one, unless 
otherwise ordered. 

TICKET STOCK USED. 

For plain or numbered tickets as above, we use 
a heavy card board manufactured expressly for the 
purpose, such as is used tor the common Railroad 
Ticket of which we can furnish about 

50 Different Oolors, Stripes and Varieties 
So that each different ticket can be readily distin- 
guished by its looks, and there will be no need of 
duplicating the color that tickets have been in 
recent former years, 

FoR-M 2 e.Khibits a size of tickets sometimes used 
for admission, meal tickets etc. We use this for a 
cheap class of work, where a lighter quality of stock 
will answer, 

PASSES. 

We give diagrams of two styles of Passes, the 
size of which with that of Form 2 we have adopted, 
as being the most convenient for gate-keepers to 
handle and use. They are used principally at the 
gates and grand stands where persons who have 
entered, are allowed to pass out and return again 
without charge; and it will be found advantageous 
to have a different colored card for the pa.sses that 
are used in the different places, and upon different 
davs. 



PRICES OF TICKETS AND PASSES. 



.'iOO or less.. 

1000 

2000 

.3000 

5000 



PLAIN, 
..$ 75. 
.. 90. 
.. 1 60., 
2 25. 
.'. 3 50. 



TICKETS, 

NUMBERED. 



.1 no 
.1 80 



.4 00 



PLAIN. NUMBERED. 

7000 $ 4 90 ? 5 25 

10000 6 70 7 25 

1.5000 9 30 10 .50 

20000 12 00 13 50 

30000 18 00 20 00 



PASSES. 

FORM 2 &3. 

S 40 

60 



FORM 4. 

100 S 40 S 50 

2.50 60 75 

500 75 1 00 

1000 1 00 1 50 

3000 2 .50 4 00 

5000 4 00 6 00 

Changes in reading matter 25 cents each in addition to prices above, but no charge for changes of color or stripe. In comput- 
ing prices of tickets Ihe number of tickets in the entire order is taken, and to the price for the aggregate, the price for changes of 
any is added. 



If Numbered Tickets are wanted, so state iu tUe order, as wheu di 



itrary are uot giveu plain tickets i 



eut. 



THE FAIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. 



CHEAPEST, BEST, AND MOST POPULAR TICKET IN USE. 

EVERYBODY IS PLEASED WITH THEM. 

PROOF AGAINST THE PECULATION OF DISHONEST TICKET SELLERS. 

ACCURATE AND SELF COUNTING. 

These tickets we believe to b? far superior to all others, when their perfect adaptability and cheap- 
ness are considered. As shown by the accompaninR drawing, ten tickets are made together upon one 
card, '^'h ^P^f""'!"" between each, so that they may be torn off fron, one another read.ly ,n use and 
«rh card has a stub at the top. These cards are put together m a pack, fastened through the stubs, so 



SAFETY TICKETS 



each card has a stub ; 
that there are 



lOO TICKETS IN EACH PACK. 



The TICKETS on each card ARE NUMBERED by two sets of numbers, one from the bottom 
UP from to 9, and the other from the top down, from 1 to 9 on the next to the last ticket. 1 he 
STUBS on each ticket ARE NUMnEREIl by tens throughout the pack, at the top, and on the en.is 
at the bottom, those at the top increasmg, and the bottom decreasmg. 

The cards are made and put together, the stub of each being a little longer than the other, so that I 
when all the tickets upon a card are removed, the lower end of the stub of the n^xt succeeding card and j|| 
i^s mm ber is visible, and by combining the number on the stub last visible, and the number on the list , 
t cket remaining in a partially sold pack, the number of tickets sold from a pack is given, and by com- | 
bining the mmber on the lower end with the number above it on the last remaining ticket the number 
ofTckets r.m«m<"e in the pack is given. Thus on the drawing, combining 30 and 6 on the left, shows 
■i6ticketssold, and 60 and 4 on the right, shows 64 ticket, remaming in the pack ^ 
^ The numbering device, for showing how many tickets remain m the pack in combin^aUon with 
numbers showing what have been sold, will not be put on the tickets unless SPECIALLY ORDERED 

HOW TO USE THEM. 

The seller holds the pack in his left hand and removes one, two or three tickets at a time as may 
be called for, and experience shows, that they may be handled more rapidly than single.tickets, and 
more accurately, as they do not stick together. Like consecutively numbered tickets, they 

SAVE THE WORK OF COUNTING TICKETS. 

before and after the fair, and with a sufficient number to last through it, the counting during its progress. 
If properly put up, as we aim to have them, they are 

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT IN NUMBER, 

and the seller receives them understandingly, and with confidence, and no excuse except his error, can 
be ffiven for a •'short ca'/i." If anv doubt as to the correctness with which the tickets are put up arises, 
the count can be easily verified by an examination of the stubs, a feature retained by no other style of 
ticket They are a perfect check upon the seller, and do away with any possibility of mistake and 
leave no ground for a dispute over wh.it tickets were received or disposed of, or wh; 
should be reported. Besides, he or the officers may know at any time during the 'air, 

HOW MANY TICKETS HAVE BEEN SOLD, 

and ascertain how much money should have been taken in, without counting it 

They are also so cheap that any society can affoid them, and we make them in such styles 
colors that they cannot be duplicated except at a great expense, rendering them sale from com 
feits. Our copyright gives us the sole privdege of print.n- this style of ticket. 

TICKET WORDING. 

We are obli"ed to set up ten forms for each lot of tickets printed, and the price is so cheap we are 
compelled to ado^pt such rules in regard to printing these tickets as will vary our forms the least For 
this reason at our regular prices, except for an order of some size, we only print the name of the fair, 
its date, one of its officers, secretary or treasurer, and the admission line upon these tickets, and the 
wording of the admission line is made rs following :— 

Admit One. Child's Tickot. 

Admit One Horse. Admit One Horse and Vehicle. 

Admit Two Horses. Admit Two Hinses and Vehicle. 

(irand Stand Ticket. 
VARIETY OF COLORS AND STRIPES FOR 1887. 

AVe have a.s herctoforo ten diflerent colors of card bo.tnl upon which these tickel.s 
are made, hut a.i many of our old ciistoiuers will want something to change the iden- 
tity from' what they have used in pa-st years, we shall furnish them upon 

Striped stock, similar to diagram given beh)w, the colored part of which Sve have, 
in blue, green, red and yellow. 

STYLE A. STYLES. 



ount of 11101 
d at a glance, just 



Sold. 





Left. 



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Brown Coitnty Faii\ 

JiDMIT ONJS 

9 John Brotvn.Secy. 1 

Brown Counltj Fair 

8 John Brown, Seci/Z 

Brown County Fair 
:flBMIT ONE 
7 John Browu^Secy.3 

Brofvn CoitnfifFtfir. 
:7lDMir OAfh' 
6 John tiro^vti.Sectf- ji'_ 



Drown foii/iftj Fair. 
:1DMIT ONE 
J John BfVwn,Se(ij.J^ 




Brown Counttj Fair- 
yWMIT ONE 

1 Jo/i/t Brown, Sect/- 6 

1 y-^^--^-;rT7r:rTJi 

Brown Ccunlij Fail'. 
V jrlBMIT ONK . 

:i John Brown Secy 7 _ 

HrowTi Coil iihj Fair. 
,>WMIT ONE , 

2 .John Brow n, Secy S 

^ro-n'n Count tj Fair \ 
.^DMIT ONE 
i .fohn Brown .Secy' 9 

Firown Conn ft/ Fair. 
John Brown, Secy 60 




Tarties desiring tickeUs like the above can describe them by giying the style and their choice of colors, if any, thus ; Style A, 
red, which would mean a ticket with red stripe across the end ; or Style B, blue, which would mean a ticket with a blue stripe 
cross the side. 



SIXTH AM^UAL CATALOGUE. 



J'RigE^ pf ^AJ^^TJ TJpKjPJS. 



Although there has been a considerable advance in the prices of materials; and the striping of tickets adds to their ex- 
pense, yet we maintain our former unparalleled low prices. 

1000 tickets or less .fl.OO. Over 1000, for the excess of 1000 per M. 50 cents. Orders of 50,000 or more per M. 40 cents. 
Changes in form to denote different days, or for different kinds of tickets .50 cents each. 
Orders of 5000 will be allowed one change without charge. 

NAMES OF PLACES WHERE SAFETY TICKETS ARE USED. 



This list only contains places using 10,000 or more tickets, and does not include one half of our patrons. 



Albia, Ia. 
Allian<:e, O. 
Anderson, Ind. 
Angelica, N. Y. 
Audubon, Ia. 
Aurora, Ind. 
Albuqurque, N. M. 
Akron, O. 

Albany, N. Y., (State). 
Agency, I a. 
Auburn, Neb. 
Angola, Ind. 
Ashland, O. 
bucyrus, o. 
Bedford, Ind. 
Benton, Pa. 
Belviderk, Ills. 
Butler, Pa. 
Bath. N. Y. 
Bowling Green, O. 
Bowling Green, Ky. 
Barnesville, O. 
Brookville, Pa. 
Bloomfield, Ia. 
Coldwatee, Mich. 
Chelsea. Mich. 
CoRRY, Pa. 
Carbondale, Ills. 
Charleston, Ills. 
Carthage, Ills. 
Chariton, Ia. 
Columbus, O., (State). 
Charlotte, Mich. 
Chillicothe, O. 
Catlin, Ills. 
Canton, N. Y. 
Chautauqua, Sp'gs. Ka 
Cambeidoeboro, Pa 
Canton, O. 
Corydon, Ind. 



Columbus, Ind. 
Coxsackie, N. Y. 
Canal Dover, O. 
Conneaut, O. 
Carmi, Ills. 
Chester, S. C. 
Dklaware, O. 
DeWitt, Ia. 
Defiance, O. 
Dunkirk, N. Y. 
Delavan, Ills. 
Dayton, O. 
Du Bois, Pa. 
Detroit, Mich. 
Dover, Del., (State). 
Dallas, Tex., (State). 
Danville, Ills. 
Eugene, Ind. 
Eldora, Ia. 
Eldorado, Ills. 
East Enterprise, Ind. 
Easton, Md. 
Erie, Pa. 

Fort Collins, Col. 
Flint, Mich. 
Fremont, O. 
Fincastle, Va. 
Fulton, Mo. 
fostoria, o. 
Findlay, O. 
Fayettville, N. C. 
Greenville, Ky. 
Greenfield, O. 
Greeley, Col. 
Galena, Ills. 
Grensburg, Ind. 
nGoldsboro, N. C. 
Grand Forks, Dak. 
Greenwich, O. 
Hubbardstown, Mich. 



HouLTON, Me. 
Harford, Pa. 
Huntington, Ind. 
Hillsdale, Mich- 
Helena, Mont. 
Hicksville, O. 
Hamilton, O. 
Haruodsbi'Rg, Ky. 
Hampton, la. 
J.\nesville, Wis. 
Johnstown, N. Y. 
Junction City, Kan. 

KiTANNING, Pa. 

Knoxville, Ia. 
KiLMORE, Ind. 
Knoxville, Ills. 
Kenton, O. 
Kearney, Neb. 
Lexington ,Ky. 
Lancaster, O. 
Lima, O. 
Leesburg, Va. 
Lebanon, O. 
Lawrenceburg, Ky. 
Mt. Pleasant, Ia. 
Mercer, Pa. 
McComb, Ills. 
Macon, Mo. 

MOBERLY, Mo. 

Mansfield, Pa. 
Marquette, Mich. 
Mansfield, O. 
Mt. Vernon, O. 
McAethur, O. 

MiLLEESTOWN, PA. 

Mt. Vernon, Ills. 
^Mexico, Mo. 
McLeansboro. Ills 
Marysville, Mo. 



M.\rysville, Cal. Ridgeway, Mo. 

Middlebourne, W. Va.Raleigh, N. C. 



Mexico, N. Y. 

MONTICELLO, Ia. 

Millsboro, Pa. 
MiLTON, Ia. 
imontpelier, o. 
norwalk, o. 
New Castle, Ind. 
Napoleon, O. 
N. Manchester, Ind. 
Newark, O. 



S.\RcoxiE, Mo. 
Shelbina, Mo. 
St. Clairsville, O. 
Somerville, N. J. 
Shreveport, La. 
Staunton, Va. 
Stafford Springs, Ct. 
.Stoneboro, Pa. 
Shelby, O. 
Sandusky, O. 



North Adams, Mass. Syracuse, Neb. 
Neosho Falls, Kan. Spokane, Falls, W. Ty. 



Orleans, Ind. 
Ottumwa, Ia. 
Owensboro, Ky. 
Plattsmouth, Neb. 
Piper City, Ills. 



Scranton, Pa. 
Sharpsburg, Ky. 
Tecumseh, Neb. 
Towanda, Pa. 
Titusville, Pa. 



Portland, Me. (State)Trot, O. 
Pinckneyville, Ills. Terra Haute, Ind. 



Parsons, Kan. 
Paw Paw, Mich. 
Portland, Ind. 
Paris, Ky. 
PoNCA, Neb. 
Princeton, Ind. 
Paoli, Ind. 
Plymouth, Mich. 
QuiNCY, Mich. 
Rushville, Ills. 
Richland, Ia. 



Urichsville, O. 
Union City, Pa. 
Uniontown, Pa. 
Wichita. Kan. 
Watertown, Conn. 
Waukesha, Wis. 
Wellington, O. 
Woodstock, Ills. 
Washington, C. H., O. 
Washington, Ind. 
Warren, Ind. 



Richmond, Va. (State)WAusEON, O. 
Ravenna, O. Waterloo, Ind. 

RoYALTON, Vt. Wabash, Ind. 

Red Oak, Ia. Washington, Pa. 

Randolph, N. Y. York, Pa. 

Ypsilanti, Mich. 



POINTS TO OBSERVE IN ORDERING. 



Kind of Tickets. If you want Safety Tickets for small lots, specify it, as we make small card for all orders of less 
than 1000 not otherwise specified, and numbered tickets are not furnished unless so ordered. 

Colors Wanted. When different directions are not given, each distinct kind of admission ticket ordered of us, such 
as adult, child, horse, etc., is made of a different color or shape from the others in the order, so that it can be readily distin 
guished at the gate, and nothing need be said as to colors, unless certain ones are wanted. But if a ticket is only to be good 
upon the day for which it is sold, the number of tickets that are wanted for each day should be given. 

Dating Tickets. When tickets are only to be good upon the day for which they are sold, the expense of changing the 
forms to designate the different dates can be avoided by using the words "good for this day only" and the distinction of color 
maintained. Dates except the year, are not put upon tickets unless so ordered. 

Officer's Names. When no name of officer is designated to be placed upon the .single admission tickets, that of the 
secretary or person making the order will be used. 

Send Copy. It is always best to send copy of what is wanted, but when it is not done, we get out tickets in conformity 
to these rules, and the dictates of our best judgment, for errors of which we do not become responsible. 



Goods to be paid for after the fair, are sold only with the understanding that if the society does not take In funds enough to pay Its 
expenses, they are io be paid for first from what funds are received- 



THE FAIR PUBLISHIKG HOUSE. 



-H^SE^f^SOnST t TICI^ETS_#- 



Season Tickets are used for a Varietv of Purposes, such as 

Exhibitor's or Membership Tickets. Family Tickets, Complimentaries, Stockholder's Tickets, 

Boothmen's Tickets, Assistant's Tickets and the like. 

We make them upon an extra quality of Bristol Board, the printed matter being of the size shown by the following 
diaf'rams, unless otherwise ordered, and where tickets are ordered for different purposes, alwaws change the color of the card 
when the choice is left to us. 



Form S.-ORDINARY TICKET. 

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$100 v{^i f^fliyy^ ini®ii^tgircgi^^s^ I 






MASON, DIXON CO., KY,, SEPT. 1-5, 1887, 



:[ 100' \ 



K Issued to.. 



NOT TRANSFERABLE. 



JOHN DICK, Sec'y. 1 



g -^0 WM. MASON, Pres. 

llIIIIIIMBUHIIIIIimffi]l!ll!ll!Blllllli;il^lllllll«:illllllll»llllll 



Form 6.— LIMITED TICKET. 

PROWN COUNTY FAIR, 

"5 Brownsville, Ky., 

"a SEPTEMBER 1. 2, 3, 4 & 5, 1886. 



m myimmwmm'3 tmmmc m 



TENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 



I Issued lo. 



'I NOT TIIAN8FERA1!1,E. 

ti Good only on tlie days denoted by Ihe uncancelled flgurca, 

W. L. LANGTON, Sec'y. 



■^ FRED Q. PETITE, Prest, 



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Form 7.-COMMUTATION TICKET. 



^^J^ 



1 



TENTH ANNUAL 



^xtADYv/Lt^ I Sept. 1-5, I887. 



i{: AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL FAIR. i{^ 



Uooa for aft many admlRolonR as Itiero arc uncancelled numbers 

In the margin. 

JOHN 0. LONG. President. S- 0. SHORT, Secretary. 



8 



10 



rOEM 5-OKDINAEY, TICKETS. 

The common Sea.son Ticket is shown in Form 5. 
It gains admission tor its owner at any time during 
the fair by his presenting it at the gate. The only 
disadvantage iu such a ticket is that i( can readily 
be transferred by a dishonest owner to one not en- 
titled to use it, who can generally gain admission 
upon it, as iu a rush at the g tes the imposture will 
seldom be recognized aud the Society defrauded of 
au admission fee. Such tickets are generallj' u.sed, 
however, and if carefully watched are quite .satis- 
factory. By punching a ticket every time it is used 
and making it an object of suspicion if the holes iu 
it become numerous, such impostion can generally 
be detected. 

FOEM 6-LIMITED TICKETS. 

The ticket in Form 6 is used where a ticket will 
not pass a person but once upon the same day. It 
has as manv numbers across the end as there are 
days of the fair, each number representing the ad- 
mission for the c Tresponding day. A number is 
canceled with a ticket punch each day when it is 
used. When two admissions are allowed for each 
day, a row of numbers is placed across both ends ot 
the ticket, or iu case the owner is allowed to go out 
and return after his first entrance to the grounds, 
the pass method, explained for Coupon Tickets, can 
be adopted. 

"When it is desired to issue a ticket, good only for 
a spec ified day or days, it m:iy be accomplished by 
pun hiug out all ol the numbers except those for 
the specified days, and punchiug them out when 
the ticket is used, will destroy its value entirely. 

The DAYS OF THE I'AIR are put across the end in- 
stead o( the numbers when preferred. 

POEM 7-COMMIITATION TICKETS. 

The ticket in Form 7 is used when it is desired to 
give a person a certain number of admissions during 
the fair, allowing him to use them as rapidly as he 
chooses. A ticket bears as many numbers upon it.s 
face as it is desired to grant admi,=sious to the pur- 
ehasiT, aud every time it is used a nuiuber is 
punched out at the gate, aud when all the uumbers 
are cancelled, the ticket is taken up. 

These tickets are sometimes made transferable so 
so that the purchaser can take iu others than him- 
self, but when not they di.spose of the imposition 
sometimes practiced upon societies by purchasers of 
tickets passing them tliiough the fence or sending 
them out of the grounds to those who dishonestly 
enlir uiion them, as every time they are used a 
uumljer is cancelled and their value so lessened that 
their owners will prefer to keep them tor personal 
use. Punching of tickets also lea'ls the gate keeper 
to exercise more care to recognize the holder and 
when a ticket is in the hand of a stranger it is thus 
more apt to be detected. We make these tickets for 
(i, 8, 10, I'i, or other number of admissions as may be 
desired. 



C^—Thcsc Tickets are not numbered or put up in packs of specified size unless so ordered, but full count Is ifuaranteed. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



FORBI 8. 



-iKSPECiiiir TICKETS- a 

0S( Good 

3ssiicc) to. 



NOT TRANSFERABLE. 



Issued on Account of. ^ 

Wm. Wiccins, Pres. Robt. Vennor, Sec'y- ^ 



Tliis form of Special Ticket is something that 
is coming much into use, as occasion arises quite 
often that a ticket is required for some special 
purpose, and where to use the common ticket 
■would disarrange the financial accounts. 

Tickets of this kind may be used for races, and 
■when punched and strung may be ■worn, and 
answer as Horsemen's Badges. 



-^ PRICES^^OF^SEASOli^^AND-^^SIMILAR-^TICKETS. ^ 

Printed in colors as per accompanying samples. 



Tickets of either form here given are printed to order, with reading matter to suit -party ordering. 

We use two grades of stock, called No. 1 and No. 2, the latter of which is the cheaper in quality. 

Both grades of stock are printed witli background for 18S7, as per sample accompanying, except plain ticket. 



200 
300 
400 
500 
1000 
2000 
Additional per 1000 



NO. OXE. 

100 Tickets $1 50 .. 



2 00 
2 25 

2 50 
4 00 
7 50 

3 00 



1 60 


1 50 


1 75 


1 60 


2 00 


1 75 




2 00 


3 50 


300 


(i 50 


5 50 


2 50 


225 



Colors — White, Graj', Cherry, Light Green, Salmon, Amber, Light Blue, Canary, and Lilac. 

FINE COMPLIIVIENTARIES. 

Cards made of the same quality as our Season and similar Tickets answer very ■well as Complimentaries, and are exten- 
sively used, but to gratify those places which desire something very nice, we furnish an extra engraved card, printed in colors, 
as per sample, at the following prices : 

Price, 100 ?2 00 Price, 300 $3 00 

" 150 2 25 " 400 3 25 

" 200 2 50 " 500 3 50 

CONSECUTIVELY NUMBERING TICKETS. 

It is often the case that Societies desire to keep a record of the persons who obtain Season and similar Tickets, and wish 
each ticket marked for identification ;' or it is desired that a strict account of such of these tickets as are disposed of by the sellers 
be kept. To enable this tojbe done readily, we number tickets consecutively from one to the highest number of any kind 
obtained, by a machine, the nvimbers being printed at the proper place upon the ticket. AVhen the tickets are thus numbered, 
the numlaer of the ticket issued to a person can be placed in the record opposite his name, or, if the tickets are sold in regular 
order, the number that have been disposed of can be ascertained at any time by the number on the first remaining ticket. 

Any of our,Tickets will be numbered at 10 cents per 100 extra, 30 cents per 500 or 50 cents per 1000. 



POINTS TO OBSERVE IN ORDERING. 



Parties ordering tickets can easily make up copy for what they want by writing out a form similar to those given upon 
these pages, and thus .avoid the possibilities of mistake. 

Those wlio order tickets by specifying the form merely, should read it over carefully before so doing, to see that it 
contains nothing in the printed matter that is improper, as in such cases, unless it will be a manifest error, only the name of 
tlie society, town, dates, and officers' names are changed to suit the tickets ordered. 

If your printed letter-head does not give the names of officers and date of fair, if it has not already been done, a premium 
list, printed circular, or other printed matter giving them, if had, should be sent us ; but if not, care should be taken that all 
proper names are spelled correctly and written plainly upon the copy. Be sure to cross all t's and dot the Vs, and make the 
proper distinction between t and 7, i and e, o and u, and ;• and s. A'little pains in this respect will avoid all errors. 

rS^ For Business Rules and Discounts see Third Page of Cover. 



THE FAIK PUBLISHING HOUSE. 



Form 9-STUB TICKETS. 



^*1887.:|c^ 






To. 



Address. 



BLUESTONE PARK, 



For . 



No. 




Qi 



DURING FIFTH ANNUAL FAIR 






Horace Creelev, President. 
BENJ. Franklin, Secretary. Hj 

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Some Societies wisii to have their officers keep a niemoranduiu of tlie person to whom the tickets, are issued, so that an 
inspection will reveal whether any favoritism has been shown to undeserving parties, or whether an excess of tickets has 
been issued. One method of accomplishing this is to have the tickets made with a stub, as shown in Form 9, and have them 
bound in books. Each officer wlio is allowed to dispose of such tickets, can be provided with a book, and he must keep a 
record of where they have gone, whicli will tend to make him careful to whom he issues them. 

Tickets of either form, Plain, Limited, or Commutation, are put up in this manner with stubs. 

PRICES OF STUB TICKETS. 

Bouud in books of 100 tickets each, with fle.xible manilla cover. 

100 $1 .50 .500 ?2 50 

•200 175 UKIO 4 00 

300 2 00 2000 7 50 

400 2 2.5 Add'l per 1000 3 00 

These tickets are printed upon light Bristol Board, suited to their construction. Colors — Canary, Cherry, Blue, Pink, 
Salmon, Lilac, Green, and Gray. 





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The tickets in Form lo irc very popular where it is desired to liiivt the number of admissions lo one or two per day. They liave a coupon (or each 
admission, and when it is removed the ticltel cannot oe used again unless some provision is made for passini; its holder, and thus operated are almost a 
complete check upon transfer frauds. They are usually preferred to Limited Tickets, Form j, as there is no necessity of using a punch. 

When it is desired to allow a holder to leave the grounds and return again upon his ticket the same dav, upon leaving lie is requested to present his 
ticket at the gate and obtain a pass or check, as the ticket is not good of itself for entrance, on anyday, «h'cn the coupon for that day has been removed, 
except with a pass, and the pass can only be obtained by showing the ticket at the g.itc, but few persons will let another have their ticket, and run the risk of 
the f^raud being detected and the whole ticket lost. auJ should one go out and not obtain the pass, it would not allow him to reenter, for, the ticket without a 
pass, or pass without a ticket should never be valid. 

When two or more persons are to be allowed to enter upon the same ticket, they should all go togetlier, and either or all may go out at a time and get 
(hecks, and be c jmpellea to return together. The Coupons removed will serve as passes. 

IWMor» printed goods for fairs are supplied by our house than by all the other pHntlnir offices In the United States combined. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



FORM ll.-END COUPONS. 



^KNnXvGDUNTYvFAIR,^ • 

KNOXVILLE, O., 

OCTOBER 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 1886. 'ff 

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M'e make our 
tickets with cou- 
pons below or at the 
enrl of the ticket, as 
may be preferred. 

We also make 
tlu'in of the size 
given, in either of 
the forms. 

One. two. three, 
four, fir more cou- 
pons are put upon 
a ticket, as may be 
ordered. 



FORM la.— HAY TICKETS. 



OOvvvv^vwO^JC 



Monroe + County •*• Fair, 



1886. 



211 

Is entitled to Hay for animals, on 

days represented by coupons on ticket. 



HAY TICKETS. 

One of the abuses at our fairs 
which needs correction is the 
manner which hay is stacked 
iqion the grounds and left un- 
guarded, so that everybody can 
run to it, take what they please, 
feed some, use some for bedding 
the animals, and waste more 
than they use legitimately. 
Every Society will find it a 
source of economy to have their 
liay in charge of some person 
who will allow no one to carry 
any of it away, except such as 
are entillcd tn it. and then only 
so much as he should properly use of it. To enable Societies to maintain some system about this pnrtinn of their management, 
our Hay Ticket has been devised. The Secretary or Superintendent will issue a ticket to each stock exhibitor, stating how- 
many animals he has, and to get the hay this ticket must be presented to the keeper in its charge, persons without one not 
being given any. It is best not to give out hay but once a day, and then enough for feed until the next day, but it may be 
done each morning or evening. In either case, as soon as an exhibitor is supplied fully, the day's coupon is removed by the 
hay-keeper, his ticket will show that he has had hay, and he must wait for more until the next day. The size of ticket is very 
convenient for carrying, and those who have used the system pronounce it a very successful one. 

GATE AND GRAND STAND COMBINED TICKETS. 

Where one fare will admit a person to fioth the gate and the grand stand, it is desirable to have it so arranged as to 
accomplish the object with a single ticket. For use in sucu cases we have devised a Coupon Ticket, the main part of which 
is to gain entrance at the gate, and the coupon made good at the stand, thus making the one ticliet serve the two purjx)ses. 





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Prices of Coupon Tickets. - 



coLons. 

4 Coup 



•200 
300 
400 
500 
1000 
•2000 
Additional per 1000 



100 Tickets $1 7.1 



'2 00 
2 oO 

2 60 
•2 7.5 
4 00 
7 r)0 

3 2.") 



¥2 00 $1 .50 

2 35 

2 65 

3 00 

3^25 

5 00 

9 00 

3 7.5 



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ay Tickets 


.$1 .50 
1 75 


f^\ 7.5 


ncketssilnlPsizi-. 
...$l ^25 


•' 15 




1 45 


2 00 


2 50 




.. 1 65 


•2 20 

. 2 40 

3 .50 


2 85 

4 .50 

7 .50 




.. 1 85 
.. 2 00 


..6 00 


.. 5 00 


. 2 50 


... 2 00 



SMALL ORDERS.— -Orders for less thau 100 of any of the foregoing tickets will be charged tht 

Colors, — Canary, Cherry, Blue, Pink, Lilac, Green, Salmon and Gray. 

Our Coupon Tickets are gotten up in good style, and upon stock that is perlVclly suitable in ili.^ 
so as to tear off readily. 

In ordinary Coupon Tickets, obseive that whfri' no admission is charged fur the 
necessary for that day. 

Coupon Tickets numbered consecuti\ely laily when scj ordered. — See prices on page ■> 



(hlV 



.■^anie price as ICO tickets 

purpose, and perforated 
f the lair, no coupon is 



To accommodate our customers who do not wish to appear to antagonize hoii 
tickets, or other goods, except where necesf-ary to preserve our rights. 



uo uiipiiiit is put upon our 



10 



THE FAIll PUBLlSHDs'G HOUSE. 



TICKET WORDING. 

The reading matter upon the foregoing lorins of ticket, is only calculated to illustrate the style of ticket given, and 
Societies ordering are by no means confined to such a wording of their tickets, but will be allowed to select 

ANY READING MATTER DESIRED, 

or can have a ticket made in any form or size in case the forms given do not suit, with change in prices to suit the desired 
changes. We have 

A VARIETY OF COLORS 
of card for use in the different kinds of ticket we make, so that a duplication of colors already used by our customers can be 
avoided, and that different colors can be selected for different days, or for tickets that may be desired for different purposes. 
For list of colors, see previous pages. 



Form 13. 



This ticket is issued on account of courtesy, uiid not for pay. 
// is Not Transferable, and if presented by any other party 
tlian the one named on its face, the gate-lieep^T will take it up 
an-i collect the admission fee. All persons in a carriage witli 
those named must procure tickets. 



TICKET CONDITIONS. 

Sometimes a society wishes to limit the u.se 
of a ticket, or make some statement in regard 
to its issue, more fully than can be done upon 
its face, and it is necessary to use the back for 
the purpose. Form 9 is a sample of a condition 
often placed upon the back of a complimentary. 

Such conditions and others, are printed upon 
the back of the tickets when desired by those 
ordering. 

PRICE. 

The price of this printing is extra from 
printing the tickets and ranges from 25 to 50 
cents per lot. 




TICKET PUNCHES 

The attention of Societies desiring Ticket 
Punches is called to the excellent varieties of 
the same which we carry in stock. 
Xo. 1 Funch is the same as the cut shown, but twice its size. It is a first- 
class conductor's punch. 

Xo. 2 Punch is constructed like No. 1, not quite so well finished. 
No. 3 is a cheap punch, adapted for use only where the amount of work to 
be done by it is small. 

These Punclies are the cheapest we are able to supply of the quality named. 

PRICES OF TICKET PUNCHES. 

Xo. 1, $-2.75, No. 2, .S2.25, No. 3, »1.25. Net. 



TICKET REGISTER. 

We sell a small book properly ruled to enable ticket .sellers t'l make a record of the season tickets issued, such as Exhibi- 
tors Tickets, Complimentaries and the like. 

It is ruled with spaces for entering the date of issue or sale, the number of the ticket, name of the purchaser or recipient, 
his address, its price, and whether paid for or charged, so that full particulars of all such tickets disposed of cau be kept. 

It is not expected that a society will require a record of all its ticket sales, but those who have had experience with this 
department will readily see the advisability of the keeping of a list of the names of those who receive this class of tickets, to 
refer to in case of tickets being lost, or disposed of and presented by unauthorized persons, as well as keeping an accurate account 
of the receipts from this source. It will also aid in the settlement of any dispute over the unauthorized issue of complimentaries 
and tlift like. 

The Book will supply the place of a Membership llegistor in many societies. They are bound in strong Manilla covers, 
and mode of a convenient size to use. 

PRICES OFTICKET REGISTERS-Net. 

No. 1, for 500 names, 3.j cents; No. 2, for 800 namss, 5.) C3uts. Larger sizes made to order. 

Parties who design using such registers, should have llicir Season Tickets made so as to be numbered as issued. 



m^OeHure timt (IntcHofyour fiilr nrc fui'iiislivd us If tbey have not alrcad}' been. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



11 



WE ARE SOLE PUBLISHERS OF 

THE NUMERICAL ENTRY BOOKS, 

Best in Existence and Ne Plu3 Ultra, The only Labor Saving System in Use. 

Adapted to Agricultural Fairs, Expositions, Live Stock and Poultry Shows. 

They save at least three-fiflhs the labor required in tlje use of any otljer system 

We supply over one-half of t'le fairs in the United States with these Entry Books, the places including most of the State and 
larpe district ornanizatinus, where on account of the larsje nnraber of entries to be made, jjreat rapidity is necessary, and the verdict 
of their officers is, that on account of the simplicity, accuracy, ease, and dispatch with which they can do their work with them, 
they bring such a reliel that they could hardly he induced to hold a lair without them. 

A SPECIAL DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 

of our Entry Books is issued, illustrating their use fully, a copy of which accompanies this Catalogue whim scut to places where the 
books are not already in use. Others who desire th m will he supplied upon application. 

ENTRY BOOKS FOR POULTRY DEPARTMENT. 
We have a separate Entry Book for use at Poultry Shows, that can be well used at the lars;er tairs where a large list of poultry 
premiums are ottered. It has the diflerent varieties of birds named iu the American Standard of Excellence printed in the book, 
and lines to record the score of each bird be. side its entry. 

PRICES OF ENTRY BOOKS, Net. 

Rooks. Couiblued Capacity Pjice 

Two Book Set No. 1 & 2. (iOO E.thibitors, 800 Prems 

" ...No. 1&2 large 730 " 1680 ■' 

Three " No. 1,2 & 3 810 " 2140 " 

Four " ...No. 1,2,3 & 4 1020 ' 2C80 " 



Book. Capacity, 

One Book Set No. 0. 366 Exhibitors, 800 Premiums 

" No. 1. 440 " 1040 

" " No. 2. 600 " 1200 

" " No. 3. 760 '■ 1360 

" " No. 4. 840 " 2680 



Price. 

..$3.25 

.. 3.50 

4.00 

4.50 

5.00 



Poultry Entry Books, each. 
No. 1, capacity 520 Exhibitors, $3.00. No. 2, capacity G30 E^ihibitors, $3..50. 



$4.00 
6.00 

.--..oo 

6.00 
. 3.00 



No. 



!, capacity 840 
No. 2, capacity 



Separate Indexes 

Exhibitors. $1.00. 

Entry Books, without indexes, to be used with separate indexes.— No. 1, capacity 8S0 preiuiunis, ^1 00 each 
1200 premiums, $1.25 each. No. 3, capacity 1520 premiums, $1.50 each. 

SPECIAL ENTRY BOOKS. 
To accommodate some Secretaries who have a large number of entries in some special departments, we make an F.nlrv Book 
that has 25 entry columns following each premium. We also make Entry Books in special sizes, or with the numbers in the index 
varied to suit the wants of purchasers. Prices of such books are more than of the regular books. They will tw given upon appli- 
cation, stating the character of the book wanted. 

COMMITTEE BOOKS, 
Committee Books .are made in two sizes, one h.aving a capacity of 60 premiums, and the o.her SO premium.s. and with every lot 
ordered, we put them up one-tifth of the latter size. 

Price of Committee Books, net 10 cents each 



-GENT RY ^^BL ANK,-:^ 
COLDWATER - TEMPERANCE * FAIR. 



GEO. A. MILLEN, Secretary, 

Please make entries for me at your fair, as follows 



Dept. 



Class 



Prem, 
No, 



Article or Animal— As in List. 



Full size blank has 15 iiues. 



Fees, 



ENTRY BLANKS. 

Some societies have adopted the rule of le- 
(luiring all entries to be made iu writing, and 
furnish blanks lor the purpo.^e, and others 
lurnish exhibitors with blanks as a matter of 
convenience to them in sending in or making 
their entries. 

The form of Entry Blank we here give is a 
geueral one, designed to show the nature of 
such blanks. When the cl.asses all bear differ- 
ent numbers the "'Dep't" columu m.ay he 
omitted, and in case there is no entry fee 
charged on the items, that column will be uu- 
necessary. 

The conditions of entry may be placed i>t 
the top of the blank, or, if too long, up-in the 
back of it. We furnish 

BLANKS OF ANY SIZE, 



Signature printed to suit the customer, and put up 

^ wholly or partlv iu pids of ab.iiit 100 «»ch. 

County & State when "desired. 



Date 

Post Office 

PRICES OF ENTRY BLANKS 

Printed to order, having the u.~ual amount of Rules and Instructions. 

500 1000 ^soo» 

No. 1. 5J X 8.} inches $3.00 $4.00 $ 7.00 

No. 2, 8.j X 11 inciics 3.,")0 5.00 9.00 



W© do job printing, ruling and binding of ©very kind, and will give estitnatee where desired. 



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MANILLA ENTRY TAGS. 



Foriu 1-4 
TAG SIZES. 




Form l."» 
alfd Tiifr, with Prop. (liccU. 



o 

ENTRY TAG. 



Ko 



Class . 
Entry 



PROPERTY CHECK. 



No. 



Class. 
Eutry. 



rendered on return of this Check. 



Property 



SiDce we be{;an piiuting 
Tags for fairs our prices have 
been reduced each year, aud 
;ire now but about half of 
what they then were. This 
is so because our sales have 
lie en gradually increasing, 
until we are now the largest 
purchasing user of tags in 
the United Slates, obtaining 

The Lowest Prices 

uf the manufacturers, from 
whom we purchase direct, and 
giving our customers the ben- 
clit of the advautages we thus 
obtain, 

Defying all Competition, 
AVe use none but the best 
grades of tags, having them 
made to order especially for 
us. aud put up by special ar- 
langemeut iu 

Gangs of Four, 

A form that is very popular 
as they are more easily han- 
dled, and adapted to making 
entries thau when in single 

tags. 

SIZES OF TAGS. 

We carry lour sizes of tags 
in stock, as shown by diagrams 
iu Form 10, numbered 2, ',^, 4, 
aud 5, aud also a tag still 
larger called No. G. 

FORM OF TAGS. 

The style of tags given upnii 
the diagram Form 14 is the 
same as is generally used with 
our Numerical Entry Books, 
though they may be used 
with any form that may be 
desired. 



The style given in Form 1.') with pr.iinity check is <levisi(i for use where it is thought that there may be danger of goods 
getting mixed, or taken by wrong parties at the clo.-iB of the, lur Tlib lower part of the tag is a dupli;ate of the upper, and when 
the goods are put upon exhibition, the superintendent signs the |)ioperty check, aud it is removed and given to the exhibitor, who 
is compelled to present it lor comparison with the rcniaiiiirig iiortion of the tag, aud must correspond before he is allowed to take 
away his goods. The same result m.iy be accuinplished by issuiu..; two tags for e ich entry, one being pljjced upon the goods and 
the other retained by the exhibitor. 

This tag is not desirable for live stock entries, or where goods are eiusily identified, .as the extra amount of labor iu making out 
the property checkes can he saved, aud no tronlile will arise hy the use of the common Form. 

Prices of Manilla Entry Tags, Printed to Order. 

Tags. No. 2. No. '.i. No. 4. No. .'>. No. 6. 

.'JOO ?1 00 *1 1(1 $1 20 U 3.) $1 .50 

1000 1 ,'-)0 1 (iO 1 70 1 85 2 00 

2000 2 75 2 HO 3 15 .3 45 ; 3 75 

3000 4 00 4 20 4 50 5 00 5 40 

Tags with property check. Form 15, 25 cents per thousand extra. 

READY PRINT TAGS. 

The above prices are for tags priutcd to order, having tli( 
may be desired. But as nothing more is n<-cc.s,saiy to lie pniii 
containing these requisites, which is the same as give ii upi. 
we make them at a correspondingly reduced price. 

Prices of Ready Print Entry Tags.— Net. 

Tags No. ■;. No. :;. No. 4 No. .'.. No. «. 

■■>00 $ 75 ^ m 8 !10 $1 05 Ijl 25 

1000 1 25 1 :tO 1 40 1 .IS 1 75 

Add'l per M 1 2.5 1 .W 1 40 1 55 1 75 

I'M loraled tags 25 cents per .500 or lOOO extra. >Vhen not otherwise specilicd in the order, Heady Print Tags are sent. 

All Koodi III thlit I'litaliisiiB the pi-lceit of h-IiIi'Ii iii-u iiiarkeil iiel are u<>t subjecl tu dUcoiiiilii. 



nauK 
•,l up, 
Forn 



of the society and such other reading matter upon them as 

n a tag than is required to designate the entry, we make a tag 

I I aud 15 above, and as we can print thtui in l.irgc qnantilits. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



13 



COLORED ENTRY TAGS. 



For the usual entries a manilla tag is used, but some societies prefer a colored tag for use in the Halls, deeming it that 
tliey give a more attractive appearance to the exhibits than a common tag. Tags of a certain distinct color are also used for 
entries for special premiums and for entries where no premium is offered. 

AVe keep in stock tags for tliis purpose in colors, red, blue, green and yellow. 

PRICES OF COLORED ENTRY TAGS. 



500.. 
1000.. 
2000., 



No. 2 No. 3 

..$1.30 fl.50 

.. 2.10 2.30 

.. 4.00 4..'iO 



No. 4 
..^1.60 
.. 2.45 

.. 4.75 



No. 5 
.$1.75 
. 2.65 
. 5.00 



Form 16.— Size 2. 



Form 16— Size I. 




MERCHANDISE TAGS. 

We I'nrnish also a tag made upon the .same stock as the 
ordinary Merchandise Tag, and keep in stock the sizes given 
by accompanying diagrams, Nos. 1 and 2. 

These tag-; are furnished white or yellow, and are convenient 
to use for entries of fane}' goods and small articles. 



PRICESOF MERCHANDISE TAGS. 



Size 1, Small $1.00 $1.25 

Size 2, Large 1.10 1.35 



500 

.$2.00 
,. 2.15 



1000 

.$2.50 

,.$2.75 



STRINGING TAGS. 

As Secretaries usually have work enough to perform, and are not well prepared to attend to the stringing themselves, it 
will not only be a source of economy, but one of certainty of its being done, if string tags are ordered of us. Societies should 
use no other kind, as the convenience they are to exhibitors, pleases them so much more, that the extra cost can be but 
lightly considered. 

We use an extra fine quality of Colored Sea Island Twine in stringing our tags, which is not only much preferable 
in use to the rough a»d heavy hemp cord usually put upon them, but gives a handsome and attractive appearance to the tags 
as well. 

Price of stringing tags, .500, 30 cents, per 1000, 50 cents. ' 



TNXuas^^^zv^rvacon, ;^ 



s^N2>u2^S!^Q&^2M&<!i^2^^Ki^K^S^A^;^^'^ 



B/cGG/cGE AND fAF^GEb G^IEeKS, 



c 



J 



PARCEL CHECK 



90 



We keep in stock ready printed checks of this character for use at places upon the 
grounds, where baggage is received and cared for. They are the size of the accompanying 
diagram, and are put up in packages of 100 checks each, the checks in each package being 
numbered from 1 to 100. Two packages of these checks, tlie one being a duplicate of the 
other, so there will be two checks of each number, tlie one to give to the owner and the other 
to place upon the baggage, constitute A SET. 

Price per Set, Net, without leather, fl.OO, with leather, $3.00. 



■Where no directions are given Strung Tngs are always 



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-^PREMIUM CiiRI]S.#- 



SPECIAL PREfAIUM. 

CHARACTER OF OUR CARDS, 

As Premium Cards are usually ri- 
laincd by the n-iipieiiU as ti>!<fiis nl 
the awaids, and mementoes fniiii ilic 
s<xi<(y. it is proper that tliey l)i- 
made in a style that shall not only 
speak well lor the donors, Imt eoin- 
niaiid the rej;ard of the i)uiividual 
10 whom they belonj;- In order that 
the cards printed by ns may be of 
this character, we use nothing but 
the best grades of material, and 
execute our workmanship upon them 
with ns much pains as any article we 
print. Since we began using 

tOLOKED TAfiS 

l"..r premuim cards, they have 
proven to be highly appropriate for 
the purpose and are so popular among 
our customers, that we use them in all eiisea 
Hnd the colors brilliant and durable, making 



ARMADA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 

OCTOBER 23, 24, 25 & 26, 1887. 



O 



FIJRST -PREMIUIVl 

Premiums payable any time between Oct, 30th and Dec. 31st. 

,.f" *' -^r 

H. 0. Fisher, Prest. 



L, A. Feeney, Sec'y. 



Form 18. 



--^4^.. 



uulesj a square card is ordered. The stock from which they are made is of good weighs 
a very attractive premium card. 

Forms of Premitim Cards. 

Form 17, is such as is ordinarily 
used by our fairs. 

Form 18, has the special feature 
that the card has the evidence 
upon its face, of to whom it was 
pranted, and it lost or stolen, it 
will only be ayailable to the 
rinhttul owner. This form is 
.sometimes useful, but it requires 
more work and care on the part 
of the committee, in making the 
awards. 

Form 19, s used in Discretion- 
ary clas.ses as evidence of the 
commendability of the articles on 
exhibition that are cla.ssed there- 
in. W al.so make Premium and 
Medal cards, after the fornj' 
shown on page £6, when desired 
Form 19. 



FRANKLIN * COUNTY * FAIR, 

FAIRVIEW, DAKOTA. 

AUGUST 15, 16, 17 & 18, 1887^ 

Fremiiinis Payable only between Augunt 20fb and October 1st, 1887, 
by preftcnlAtioii of this card to th« Seoretary. 

Awarded 071 

Class Xo. Entry No 

Superintendent. 



SIZES. 

We make (woi sizes of Premium Cards as 
is shown in forms 18 and 1!) but unless 
otherwise ordered we use the larger size, a 
No. 5 tag, as it enables us to print tli€ re- 
quired matter upon the card with a better 
appearance than on a smaller size, a No. -1 



WYANDOTTE COUNTY FAIR, 

HOOSIERTOWN, IND. 

SEPT. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 1887. 



O 



COMMEN DE D 



ThU Card entitles tlio recipient to siicU Premium a» tlie 

lloaril of Diroctorssn their discretion 

may award It. 



'^^— 



f^" 



L. STANLEY, Prest. 



C. A. THORLEY, Scc'y. 



Whore we have furnlHhod n Society with poodi one season, wo have always secured them as a permanent customer. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. IS 



COLORS OF PREMIUM CARDS. 



Reformation in the rules and regulations of fairs has not yet proceeded far enough to bring about a uniformity in the 
colors used to designate the premiums they award, and as the colors vary in different localities it is impossible for us to fill 
orders with any degree of certainty unless the party ordering designates tlie colors that are wanted. 

The following colors are most used, and when we are not otherwise instructed we will adopt them in filling orders. 
First Premium, Red. Second Premium, Blue. Tliird Premium, Yellow. Commended, Green. 

PRICES OF PREMlUiVI CARDS. 

250 500 1000 

Size of Form, No. 4 Tag §1 75 $2 00 '. .!B2 50 

Size of Form, No. 5 Tag 1 00 2 25 3 00 

No charge is made for changing forms from first, to second or third premium, or commended. 

STRINGING PREMIUIV! CARDS. 

All premium cards furnished by us have holes punched in them for stringing, and unless otherwise ordered, are 
strung with colored twine appropriate to the color of the cards. 

V\ hen cards are strung awarding committees are relieved of considerable work, and secretaries will find it much cheaper 
to have us string their cards than to attempt it at home. 

Price of stringing Premium Cards. — 500 cards 30 cents. 1000 cards .50 cents. 

COPY FOR PREMIUM CARDS. 

Secretaries who order premium card.s, will save delay, and the possibility of an error by sending us copy of what they 
want upon the cards, and they should be careful to write the names of officers so plainly that no mistake can arise in the 
spelling. When any doubt arises we hold the order before printing until the correct names can be obtained by correspondence. 

When only the form is specified in ordering cards, be careful to read the form fully, and note whether any change is 
necessary in the dates upon which premiums are payable, or otherwise. 






PREMIUM RIBBONS 

We furnish Premium Ribbons, made from a good quality of Silk Ribbon, IJ inches (No. 9) in width. They have the 
words. First Premium, Second Premium, etc., printed upon them in bold faced type, and when so ordered the name of th» 
society ordering will be printed upon them also. 

PRICE OF PREMIUM RIBBONS. 

Per Ribbon, 12 inches long, 10 cents ; 18 inches long, 15 cents ; 21 inches long, 18 cents. 
Printing name of society upon ribbons, each lot, 50 cents extra. 
Prices upon ribbons of cheaper quality or of a different size given upon application. 

PREMIUM MEDALS. 

We have arrangements made with engravers to design and furnish medals appropriate for agricultural fairs. Societies 
desiring to award them, can save money by ordering of us. Estimates given upon application. 



-# DI P LO M A S.#- 



Societies that have felt the want of a Diploma such as would lie attractive enough to be acceptable to exhibitors as well 
as a credit to the Society granting it, will be gratified to know that we are furnishing one which will meet their requirements. 

We are furnishing an elegant Diploma with representative agricultural and industrial scenes, liandsomely finished, 
and fit to ornament the walls of any household, parlor or business office. 

The quality of these Diplomas, together with their low price, removes both the objections which exhibitors have male to 
Diplomas as premiums on account of their cheapness in looks, and that which societies liave found in the expense of getting 
appropriate ones. We furnish tiiem in 

NEW DESIGNS FOR 1887. 

Two Sizes — Small, 11 x 11 and Large, IG x 20 inches. Samples and prices furnished upon application. 

Mpon goods printed to order we give a substantial discount for early orders.— See 3d page of oover. 



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DONNYBROOK ^ FAIR * PREMIUM statements 



PREMIUAl ST/\TEMENT. 



Premhima of 



Exliihitor .\u. 



Dep't 


Glass No. 


Premiums Awarded On 


Prem. 


Amount. 
























; 

















1 




1 


1 










1 








1 












! 1 











SUCCESSFUL WHEREVER USED. 

The Most Rapid and Satisfactory Method 
of Paying Premiums 



Received 



for Premiums on above 



This system provides for making out a pay 
roll of the exhibitors, and the premiums each 
has won upon a statement bla'nli the same as 
a person buying goods at a store is furnished 
with a bill of tlie items of his purehise. 

The accompanying illustration shows the 
form of statement used. The statements are 

3IADE IN nUPLICATK 
parts, two being upon a page, perforated so 
one may be torn off and given to the exhib- 
itor and a copy of it retained by the society. 
The part retained has 
A RECEIPT FOE THE PREMIUMS 
2SS to be signed bj' the person drawiug them as 

evidence of payment. The exhibitor may be 
allowed to keep his part as evidence of his prizes, or it may be made to answer as a voucher, to be presented to the Treasurer, and 
taken up bv him ivhen paiit, thus serving the double purpose of a statement and voucher. And then 

NO ORDER ON THE TREASURER IS NECESSARY. 
The stalemciils are put up in books ot Kill pages each, and'uumbered con.secntively from one through the book. IJy using them 
when they desire, SOCIETIES C!AN PAY IMMEDIATELY AT THE CLOSE OF THE FAIR, without the 
great labor ol getting the list ready, incident to other .systems. 

As fast as the Committee ISooks are returned to Secretary he may take them, if he expects to pay at the close of the fair, or at bis 
leisure if otherwise, and go through the committee's report of the awards, and place those of each different person upon a page of the 
statements by itselt, indicating the'exhibilor by bis number at first, and afterwards writing his name at the head of the statement 
The statements are arranged so as to contiiin ibe department, class, premium number, names of the articles, which premium was 
awarded — first or second, and the money it brings; but where classes run consecutively through the whole premium list, no two 
having the same number, the department colunin need not be tilled, and when the preiiiium.s are numbered in the list the premium 
number alone need lie entered, and the wcnk of writing the list of articles can lie avoided. To make out a list in this manner 
Requiros but HALF tlie TIME of any Othei- System, uiitl is I'ERFECTLY ACCURATE. 

To overcome the difficulty of finding the page on 
which an exhibitor's premiums have been previously 
placed, when he is found again in subsequent classes, 
we have invented an index in the form shown by the 
accompanying illustration, which is placed upon the 
outside cover of the book. Upon this index the page 
numbers of the statements in the pad are printed, with 
a blank column beside each column of numbers, so that 
when an exhibitor is given a page in the book for his 
awards his number is placed opposite the page number, 
on the index, so that at any time, by reference to this 
index, the page where the former award of any exhibitor 
has been placed can be readily turned to. The diagrams 
here given are only partial size, the statements being 
large enough to hold all the awards usually given to one 
person. Societies who do not use our Numerical Entry 
Books can us the blank column for the exhibitors' 
names upon the index instead of the entry number. 
PKKMIDM.S PAID BY TRE.VSUKER. 
When it is desired to make up a list of the premiums 
to be paid by the Treasurer, these books may be filled 
up and placed in bis hands, and he may pay from them 
furnishing the exhibitor with a copy of the premiums 

he receives. 

^... -,^. ^_ .. PricesNet, One Book $1.00. Two or More Books 75c each. 

PAY ROLL OF AWARDS. 

An ingenuous device lo aid in the payment of premiums awarded, consists in a book arranged like our premium statement 
blanks above, and ruled so that the awards of a number of individuals can be placed upon a page. These books are indexed 
somewhat similarly to the premium statements, .so that the place on the pay roll w.iich an exhibitor occupies can be readily 
turned to. These books are designed lor use where it is not the practice to furnish the exhibitor with a statement of his awards, 
and in such ca.ses they answer all the purposes of the premium statements, in collecting and ascertaining the aggr.gate of the 
premiums to which an exhibitor is entitled to. The.se books are large enough to contain the awards of any ordinary county fair. 

PRICES, NET.— Per hook, $1.25; Two or more $1.00 each. 

Blanks for Report of Premiums Awarded. 

We furnish sheets ruled for making up a li-l of the premiums awarded at the fair, giving Department, Class, Premium No., 
Article or Animal, to wlioni each premium wils awarded, and his Addre.s.s, with the amount of Money it commands, and when paid 
and the number of the Voucher. They will be found very handy in making out the list of awards" for publication, or to make np 
a list for the Treasurer to use in paying off the premiums. They are only ruled on one side of the paper, and each .sheet will 
contain forty premiums. Sample furnished upon application. 

PRICES NKT — P«r Bh«ct, fl cci>t». Per down .TO criit^. 

Your Prtmlum Statemtnt Is comf l«(«. By It I post my books as we ^o alon« and car pay premiums at any moment- JOHM McDONALO, Sec'y, Mt- Storllnj, III, 



STATEMENT INDEX. 






Name of Exhibitors. No. 


Page. Names of Exhibitors. | No. 


Page. 


j 


1 








, 


3 










3 








■, 


4 








j 


R 













8 































10 































SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 17 



BOOKS AND BLi^NKS FOR ASSOCIATION ACCOUNTS. 

A CORRECT FINANCIAL SYSTEM NECESSARY. 

The necessity of there being proper system in tlie keeping of the financial accounts of a fair appears clearly when we 
regard the magnitude of the business transacted at one, and the haste with which, often, some of it must be done. It is also 
essential that at proper times a report to the interested members should be made, showing in an intelligent way what 
business has been done, and a full accounting be made of all the monies received and disbursed. 

That complaints of apparent discrepancies in accounts, and of the inability of members to gain full information of the 
business done, are often heard, is not strange, from the fact that treasurers are often farmers and others who are unskilled 
in book-keeping and the ways of business. 

The accounts of a Society are susceptible of being kept with as much accuracy as those of any business, if a stated 
method be adopted and followed with exactness, and because of the often unskilled class of men who keep the accoimts, the 
method should be as simple and concise as it can be made. 

PROPER METHOD OF ACCOUNTING. 

The Secretary is usually the clerical head of a Society, and is the proper person to keep a detailed account of its business. 
The monies that come into his hands should be itemized in his accounts, and turned over to the Treasurer, to whom a 
statement should be furnished of the source from which they were derived, so that he can properly enter the same upon his 
books, and a receipt therefor should be taken by the Secretary. If any other offtcer or person appointed to do so, collects 
funds they should either be turned over to the Secretary before going to the Treasurer, or the Secretary's vovxcher should be 
required to accompany the money in order to apprise the Secretary of the character and amount of the money, and enable 
him to properly enter the transaction upon his books. 

Every one who will receive money for the Society should be furnished with a book of blanks, and be required in all cases 
to give the payer a receipt for the same, and preserve a memorandum of the amount and nature of the transaction upon the 
stub from which the receipt is torn, the book to be filed with the Secretary at the close of the fair or end of the service. To 
illustrate, if a person is employed to collect from renters his receipt book will be a test of the accuracy of his report and show 
the names of those from whom he collects, if not otherwise reported. It will be impossible to follow out this plan in case of 
sales of admission tickets, but the receipts from this source can be ascertained accurately by requiring each seller to account 
in money or return of tickets for all tickets delivered to him. 

No money should be allowed to be paid out for any purpose except by the Treasurer, upon an order duly signed ; and the 
Secretary, in issuing orders, should be required to keep a stub memorandum of each. 

To aid in carrying out this system the following blanks have been prepared and are furnished by us, and are applicable 
as well to use in any system that may be adopted. 

PAYING-IN VOUCHERS. 

This blank is designed to use in paying money to the Treasurer, to apprise him of the source from which it is derived, to 
enable him to know what account to credit it to. It contains blank spaces for the amount and nature of the different items 
for which the money was received. 

It is made in duplicate, so that a copy of each voucher can be retained, and is provided with blank for the Treasurer's 
receipt. 

These vouchers are put up in tablets of 50 and 100 blanks each, two blanks to the page, one for the original retained and 
the other the Treasurer's duplicate. 

Price, net, 50 blanks, 60c. 100 blanks, $100. 

Printed to order with the name of the Society at the head of the blank, .3oo. extra. Samples furnished upon application. 

RECEIPT FOR TICKETS DELIVERED. 

We furnish a special form of receipt to be used by the person having charge of the delivery of tickets, in taking the 
acknowledgement of the number of tickets received from those who are selling them. The use of these receipts precludes 
any dispute or discrepancy as to the tickets given out. 

These blanks are put up in duplicate, so that the seller can have a copy of the receipt he gives. 
Price, net, books of .50 Receipts, .50c. 100 Receipts, 75c. 

Samples furnished upon application. 



MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 

We keep in stock books containing blanks for the ordinary form of receiiit, wliii-li Societies can use in all the ordinary 
cases where money is received. 

Price, net, books of 5p Receipts, .35c. 100 Receipts, .jOc. 

Printed with name of the Society, 35c. extra. 
Samples of any blank described herein, of which sample is not given, cheerfully sent upon application. 



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THE FAIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. 



BLANKS FOR PRIVILEGE LETTING. 



The proper conduct of the busiuess of selling privileges and permits of varions kinds upon a fair ground, requires that the 
person making the sales should have blanks to fill out and deliver to the purchaser, specifying the nature of the privilege, price 
and terms of payment, in order that no misunderstanding can arise. For this purpose we make blanks as follows: 



No 188. 

For 

Purchaser 

Address 

Price, $ 

Payable 

Tickets 

Paid, ^ 



RENTER'S PERMIT. 

No 

For Privilege of. 

Purchaser Address 

Price $ Payable 

Entitled to Admission Tickets. 

Paid $ 

Copyright 1886 by The Laiiing Printing Co. 



.188.. 



For the Society. 



The following is a form of receipt we make* for use of the collector who receives money from renters. 



No 


188... 


No 


RENTER'S RECEIPT. 


188 

188 


Date 

From 


Fair.... 








On Privilege of..... 
















i 
$ i 






$ 




Copyright 1886 by The Laning Printing Co. 


For the Society. 





The above blanks are about twotbirds the size of the regular blauk. 



PRIVILEGE COXTRACTS.— In addition to the Renters Permit, we make a blank contract, which contains the 
followinji stipulation ys to the manner in which the business is to be conducted, and au iron-clad provisions lor forfeiture in case of 
violation or uon-paymeut. 

Tills Privilege is accepted upon condition tliat the business is to be conducted in accordance with the Rules and Regulations of the Fair, and in case of a 
known violation of the same the purcluser forfeits all further rights to his privilege without release from any unpaid portion of the price, or repayment o 
any part of w'lat has already been paid, except at the option of the Society, and upon notice to that effect from the Society the purchaser is to immediately 
surrender the grounds and buildings occupied under this rontract, and cease doing business thereunder. 

All structures erected, and goods and implements brought upon the grounds to be used or sold by the purchaser of the privilege arc hereby pledged to 
the Society, to secure all deferred payments of the price thereof, and are not to be removed from their location, as above, until the same are fully paid, and 
in case of failure to pay the same as agreed upon, upon notice from the Society so to 'Jo, the business conducted by the purchaser shall be immediately closed 
up, and the Society may take charge of the said property and remove the same from its location or the grounds, and sell the same publically or privately, 
and apply the proceeds of such sale to the payment of such unpaid sums. 

PRICES OF PRIVILEGE BLANKS. NET. 

Permits or Receipts, books ol .50 HI, inks, .")0 ceiils. lUO Blanks. 7.") cents. 

Privilege Contracts, " " " 75 " " 1 00 

Where the name of the society is printed upon the blanks, 3.5 cents extra. 



Not cnly the County Fairs, but the State and Big District Fairs are our patrons. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE 



19 



STATEMENTS DF ACCDUNT. 



''i^B> 



When an account is presented to a society for payment, the board usually refers it to the committee or parson through 
whom the purchase or contract to which it rehates was made, in order to ascertain its correctness, and it is only paid upon 
their approval. 

We furnish blanks for statements of account against societies, to be made upon, the backs of which contain proper 
blanks for filing, certificates of approval from the auditing committee and receipts for payment of the same from the 
recipient. 



Price, net, per Tablet of lOO, - - $1.50. - _ - per 250, 



$2.00. 



Societies using these blanks will gain the convenience of having method and uniformity in their accounts. 
Sample furnished upon application. 



We make and keep in stock, books of blank orders upon the Treasury, as follows : 




Received an order correspon- 
ding with the above in number, 
date and amount. 

For 



Siffned ^ ^ 



TRE^gURE]^ 0F 



Fay io.. 



For. 



nOLLARS. 



President. 



Secretary. 



The regular size of our orders is 2Js6 in for the order and 3 in. for the stub. They are printed upon good heavy paper, and 
perforated so that the order can be readily torn from the stub. 

KINDS OK ORDERS 

We make two kinds of orders, one reading the same as the one above designed for GENERAL PUND.S and another for 
PREMIUMS reading the same with the .addition of '-For Premiums at Annual Fair 188...." The orders for general Funds 
are printed upon white paper, and those for Premiums upon colored paper, so that the kiuds may readily be distinguished. 

We keep in stock books of 100, 200 and 300 orders. 

PRICES OF TREASURY ORDERS, READY PRINT, NET 

Books of 100 orders 81.00. 200 orders |1.50. 300 orders 62.00, 
These orders are all numbered throughout each book, the order and and stnb being numbered to correspond. 
PRINTED TO ORDER. — Orders as above have blanks in which it is expected that the name of the Treasurer and 
S )ciety will be written. We make however, orders and print in the name of the Treasurer and Society, and bind them in 
books any size to suit customers. Price when printed to order 25o per 100 orders, extra. These orders are not consecutively 
numbered unless so ordered. Numbering, 10 cents per hundred Ordeis, extra. 



In all ca*es, the prices of our g;oodt include the coat of remittance, necessary to i 



tlie money for them. 



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-l^'tECONOMIC ACCOUNT BOOK.^h^ 

DESIGXED EITHER FOR SECRETARY'S OR TREASURER'S USE. 

This book is arranged upon a plan designed to systematize the manner of keeping the financial accounts, and present 
tlie condition of the finances, at all limes, in an intelligent form, without the lal)or and skill necessary to the keeping of them 
after the ordinary book-keeping methods. 

The book is divided into sections, each of which contains pages enough for the accounts of one year. The first part of 
each section has pages ruled like an ordinary day book, in which can be entered all debit or unpaid items that need to be 
charged in the accounts of the Society. Ordinarily, there will not be many of these, as the financial accounts are generally of 
cash received and paid out. 

The second part^of each section is designed for entry of all cash transactions. The left hand page is ruled for Receipts, 
and the right hand page for Disbursements, so that the two stand on pages opposite one another. 

METHOD OF KEEPING THE ACCOUNTS. 

The sources from which money is received by a fair is generally included in Admission Feks, Entry Fees, Stai.i. 
Rents, Stands, and Privileges and the expenditures are comprehended in Premiums, Help at Fairs, PREPARiNii 
(Jkounds, Printing and Advertising, and Forage for Animals. In this book a column is provided for dates of the 
transaction and one for the name of the party with whom the dealing is had, like in an ordinary account book, and these 
are followed by columns, headed with names as above, and those having no heading to be utilized for additional items. In 
keeping the accounts, the names of the party from whom the money was recieved or to whom paid is entered in its columns, 
and the amountcarried into the column set apart for receipts from that source, or disbursements on that account. The dis- 
bursing side has also a column for the number of the voucher upon which pajrment was made. 

By pursuing~this course the finances are divided into proper funds, and all the receipts and disbursements of a kind are 
kept together, saving the work of posting, as well as having the items appear so that the revenues and profits from any source, 
ur expenditures that have been made for any purpose can be hastily and conveniently determined at any time by adding the 
proper column, and the books are always ready, upon call, for an immediate and intelligent financial report. 

This book is similar to the one sold by us in 1885, and which is well recommended by the many places who use them. 
The change made in 1886 consists in the improvement by adding the pages for the entry of items which are otherwise than 
cash. 

PRICES. 

The Book is well bound. Size of pages 8J x 14 inches, and is made to last 3 yrs. Price, $2.00 net. 



HANDY ACCOUNT BOOK. 

Every person who has had any experience in liandling the funds that are taken in during the progress of an agricultural 
fair, has felt the want of a book of convenient size, that he could carry about with him, and have at hand to enter the moneys 
in, just as they are received and paid out, rather than to depend upon memory, or easily lost memorandums, always the source 
of errors and omissions that lead to uncertainty and confusion in their accounts. 

To meet this want, we furnish a book of size small enough to be easily carried, and which contains pages appropriately 
ruled for keeping an account of the tickets delivered to the sellers, and the tickets and money returned by them, for keeping 
account of the sales of permits and the payments received for them, for the receipts and disbursements connected with the 
races, receipts and disbursements on miscellaneous accounts, embracing just the items that occur for attention during the 
busy time of the fair, so arranged that an omission or improper entry will hardly occur. 

Price, net per copy, 75 cents. 
The importance of writing proper names plainly wlien lliey occur in orders cannot be overestimated. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 21 



Annual Rkport Blanks. 

We have prepared an annual Report Blank, so arranged as to embody all the items that l)elong to the accounts of an 
agricultural society conducting a fair, thus enabling a proper report of the years doings to be laid before the members in a 
complete, comprehensive and intelligent form. 

They provide for the entry of all items in a systematic way, and the striking of proper balances. 

They will be found a great convenience to Treasurers, especially those not apt in tlie mysteries of book-keeping. 

Those wlio use them from year to year will have the reports uniform. 

Price 10 cents each or f 1.00 per dozen. 

OFFICIAL RECORD OF BOARD MEETINGS. 

A blank book for the Secretary's use in keeping a record of the proceedings of his board. It has printed heading for 
dates of meeting, members present, approval of minutes of last meeting, adjournment, and such items as are always necessary 
in the minutes, besides ample space for writing out the record of other preceedings. 

Thej' save considerable labor in making the minutes, besides present a form that is regular, and « liich ^^ ill make it easy 
to turn to any part of it for desired information. Each record has space allotted for 48 meetings. 

Price $2.00 Net. 



ACCOUNT BOOKS, LEDGERS, ETC. 

We keep in stock, Account Books, Records, Ledgers and Blank Books of various sizes. AVe also make blank books of 
any description to order. 

Parties desiring anything of the kind for special purposes are reijuested to write us for prices, etc. 



STOCK CERTIFICATES. 

We make Stock Certificates to order for societies desiring tliem, the prices of which varj' according to the character of 
the work desired. 

The following prices are for our best grade of certificate, printed in colors, upon true linen bond paper. 

100 Certificates f? 00. .300 Certificates $9 00. 

200 Certificates 8 00. oOO Certificates 1100. 

The Certificates at the above prices are well bound, in a single book. 



HOW TO ORGANIZE AND MANAGE FAIRS, 

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. 

lliis work contains a history of fairs and the enumeration of the most prominent ones of the world, together with a full 
and valuable discussion of every question relating to their organization and management, plans and illustrations of buildings 
and grounds, rules for laying out tracks, and descriptions of the different methods of procedure that are applied by different 
societies to the conduct of the different departments of the fair business. 

This is a handy book of reference, — one that ought to be in the hands of every officer of a fair, and a copy in every 
fair library. 

Price $1.00 Net. 



No Discounts on our i>riees are allowed ou orders made after July 1st. 



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OFFICE STATIONERY. 

Kvery well conducted Society will furnish its .Secretary with Letter Heads and Envelope.s, and every one who has pride 
in doin? his worli properly, will have the name of the Society, officers, and dates of the fair upon the letter head, aud the 
return directions at least upon the envelope. 

We make a .specialty of Commercial Stationery, and our styles, and quality of work will stand a favorable comparison 
wth any that can be obtained, while our prices are much below that of country offices. 

The following will serve to show the usual printing upon Letter Heads. 



WM. K. KCENIG, President. 
E. F. LAMS, Vice President 



P. D. QUICK, Secretary. 
A B- SCONDER, Treasurer 






SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL FAIR, SEPTEh^BER 6, 7, 8 & 9, 1887, 
$5000 IN CASH PREMIUMS, ^^J^dtaaif, oi-ik 4SS. 



300 1000 

.$2.75 f3.50 

. 2.50 3,00 



PRICES OF LETTER HEADS. 

lOO 350 

Letter Heads, size. 8 x lOJ iu %\fi.T) $1.75 

Packet Note, size, 6 x 9| in L20 L50 

All Letter aud Note Heads put up in Tablet Forms. 

cTrciJlar letters. 

When it is desired to send out uniform information to various parties, the usual method is to prepare a circular letter 
containing the matter they are desired to know and have it printed, as thus much writing is saved. These we get up in nice 
style at the following 

PRICES. 
100 rj50 



Letter Head, size, SJ x 11 in $2.50 $2.75 $3.1 

Note Size, 5J x 8.} in 2.25 

4 pp. Note, 8i X 11 in 3.00 



2.40 
3.40 



3.2,5 
4.00 



1000 

.$4.. 50 
. 4.00 
. 5.50 



3000 
..$5.00 
.. 5.50 
..12.00 



ENVELOPES. 

Envelopes may 
be gotten up in 
an attractive 
form so as to an- 
swer in an advcr- 
lisint; way, as 
well as to furnish 
directions for re- 
turn. 

We use a good 
quality ot" Enve- 
lope, and main- 
tain as high a 
style of the art 
in printing as the 
matter to go on 
them will allow. 

K.d or Blue 
ink used instead 
of Bluck when 
ordered. 

If yoH don't flud what you wnnt in this Catalogue, write and describe it, and we will make It, or let you kuow where you can set It. 



THE LEADING FAIR OF THE WEST. 


FAIRFAX FAIR AT FAIRVILLE, MO. 

AUGUST 19, 20, 21 & 22, 1887. 


1 

aooo 

5 $3.25 

5 4.25 

4.75 


If not called for In 10 Days, Return to 

JOHN FAIRBURY, 

SECRETARY, 

FAIRVILLE. MO. 




PRICES 

100 

No. 6. X Manilla r;iniphlet...$ .7.'> 

No. 6. XX, white or colored 85 

No. CJ XX, " '• " 1.00 


OF ENVELOPES. 

aao .100 io« 

*1.00 $1.25 $1.- 

1.10 1.35 2.2 

1.25 1.50 2.1 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 23 

PRBMIUM LISTS. 

We began printing Preni'um Lists in 1SS5, and our success in pleasing our patrons lias encouraged us to make m'^re ample preparations, looking 
to an increased patronage this year. We have special machinery for this class of work, and with a large force of experienced employees we are enabled to 
get out jobs which may be entrusted to us, m a reasonably short time, and do a class of work in which we as well as those who get it, can take some pride. 

We pay especial attention to the local advertising societies may wish in their list, having a large variety of attractive kinds of type, and a full and 
complete line of 

TRADE ADVERTISING CUTS, 

which we allow our patrons to use without charge, and from which they can derive great advantage, as biisinc-^s men, stock breeders, etc., can be induced to 
advertise, if they can have appropriate cuts to represent their business, when otherwise they would not. 

+ WE : DO : NO V " BOTCH " : WORK -f 

Societies who get our figures to compare with others wh j may be wished to compete for the work, should remember that 

OUR PRICES ARE FOR FIRST-CLASS WORK, 

using excellent paper and other materials, and should be rated at fully one-half more than the ordinary work on fair lists, and double that of the cheaper 
class. We use small type, set solid, for the list part, and this should be coniiidered, as often urinters who take such jobs by tlie page, use a large type, and 
lead it out, so as to make the matter occupy enough pages more, to make up for a low prio for the work by the page. 

Societies wanting our prices shouid apply early, always submit a copy of the last list for examination, and give probable number of pages tlie desired 
list will contain. 

BIO DISCOUNTS FOR EARLY ORDERS. 

IF YOU WANT A PREMIUM LIST IN A HURRY, SEND US THE JOB. 
-^PREMIUM + LIST ^ ENVELOPES.*^ 

Societies which transmit their premium lists through the mail can find nothing equal to our PR EMIUIVl LIST ENVELOPES as they avuid the 
danger of the list being lost, and secure greater dispatch in transit. They are made of good material, with OPEN END , and when the list is enclosed it is 
very secure, and when the card of the society is printed upon them in good, bold type, they help it to advertise, as well as present a very business-like 
appearance. We keep the following six sizes of these envelopes in stock ; — 

No. 1, 4x6 inches. No. 3, 4?;x6?i inches. .\o. 5, 6x9 inches. 

No. 2, i\6^i inches. No. 4, 5!4xS'i inches. No. 6, 6yx9!4 inches. 

PRICES OF PREMIUM LIST ENVELOPES. 

All envelopes printed with name of Society, and words to designate the contents, at the prices given. Sample envelope sent upon application. 

No. I No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 

250 82 15 *2 30 $2 40 $2 50 82 50 S2 50 

500 255 2 65 2 75 280 290 300 

1000 3 1.5 3 2.1 3 50 3 60 3 75 4 00 

2000 5.W 5 75 6 25 « 7.) 7 2.5 7 50 

"^^ ^^^TpremTuM + L I sTTw RAPPERS^ ^^^ 

READY GUMMED AND CUT TO PROPER SIZE. 
Societies that do not wish to incur as great an expense in sending out their list as to buy envelopes, can use our wrappers, having their card printed upon 
them as they would upon envelopes. They are made of strong manilla paper, ready gummed, like the U. S. newspaper wrappers, and, considering the'r very 
low price, are very appropriate for this purpose. 

We make them in three sizes. No. i 6x10 inch: No. 2 7x12 inch ; and No. 3 9x12 inch. 

PRICES OF PREMIUM LIST WRAPPERS. 

200 500 1000 2000 

No. 1 0125 82 00 |12 5(1 .«4 75 

No. 2 140 2 25 2 7.--. 5 25 

No. 3 150 250 .'•.no 57.^. 

Sample wrapper sent upon application. 

KEVISED FOR 1887. 

In many premium lists, owing to the want of method in the classification of premiums, and the arrangement of them properly under the headings, it is 
difficult to ascertain whether a premium for which one may be seeking is in tlie list, and it is often necessary for him to read several pages carefully to 
ascertain, when he should be able to find it by turning at once to the line upon which it is placed, as he could if a proper order was maintained in construct- 
ing the list. This consumes time, and makes great bot'<er to the clerxs in m.iking entries. 

Our Model List is arranged after the most approved form, designed to aid Secretaries and Revising Committees in classifying and properly preparing 
their premium list. It snows, also, how, in the arrangement of the premiums, to take advantage of every opportunity to shorten the work of making the 
entries, awards, reports, etc., as well as to give the list the most compiehersiveand artistic appearance. 

It is a practical book, and ought to be examined before the list for 1SS7 is revised. 

rSaiCE:, I^TET. SO CEisrxs 3>Eia coe'-s-. 

AU inquiricR about our goods will be auswerert promptly and cbeerfully. 



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OIFFICEES' B^fL-IDO-ES. 



Every well conducted society should provide its oflicers, managers, .superintendents, etc., with proper badges by whicli 
they can be identified by strangers and others when attending the fair. 

AVe furnish two kinds of Badges, ribbon and metal, as shown by the following cuts. 



IM1J150N BAI>GK. 

jlt>»iii)m))iMi'ii 





GERMAN SILVER BADGES. 

style No. 7. Style No. n. 





Director, Drab. 

Police, Grey. 

riilice Ilat Ribbon.. .Grev. 



RIBBON BADGES. 

These badges are made of fine Silk Kibbon, 2 inches wide. They are attached to a 
tine Plated Badge Pin, used for fastening thera to the coat, and ornamented at the lower 
end with Gold Badge Fringe. The whole badge is ten inches long. 

AVe keep in stock, ready made badges for the following officers, the colors, and 
name printed upon them being as follows : 

President, White. Treasurer, Gold. 

Vice-President,. . Blue. Marshal, Brown 

Secretary, Red. Superintendent, . .Pink. 

Ass't Secretary,. Reel. Supt. of (Jrounds, Yellow. 

Superiiitondt'iit'ts Kadfjes are printed for the following departments, the word 
superintendent being followed by the words here given, viz., Horses, Cattle. Sheep, 
Swine. Poultry, Floral Hall, Fine Arts, Machinery, Farm Products. 

W'l- also make liadges of other colors, wording, and de.scriptiou to order. 

PRICES OF KIBBON BADGES. 

Ready made badges, colors as above, Net 50 cents each. Made to order any color. 
Ill) cents each. Net. Police Ilat Ribbons have rubber to hold them on the hat. 

GERMAN SILVER BADGES. 

We furnish to order (Jerman Silver Badges in either style above. They are made 
from the finest quality of metal, highly polished: and equal in appearance to coin silver. 
They are provided with pins to secure them to the coat. 

PRICES — -^1.00 each, Net. Six or more badges 10 per cent, discount. 

Each badge is lettered with the woid designating the ofliee the wearer holds. 



METAL HAT BADGES. 






POLICE 



We funii,sh .Metal Ilat l!a _ 
the same as accompanying cut. 

Price, Lettered, N'et, .50 cents eacli 
10 ]ier cent, discount. 

liadges of any desired style or \ariety f^n■ni^lled to onler 



for Police or other oflicers. 
Lots of six or more 



When ortlerliij; do not uiutilutt; this CHtnlogue by cutting out Illuntriitluns, but sinipl.v luvntlun number uf Form or Style wantod. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE 



:postees_ 

Our facilities for making posters are as good as can be secured and our samples will show that we are putting out as 
good a class of work as can be anywhere purchased. Oiir prices will be found to compare very favorably with any that can 
be obtained. Samples of our posters will be furnished to societies early in the season. Prices accompany samples. 

STALL PLACARDS. 

These placards are furnished by societies to exhibitors, to be filled out 
and fastened upou^their stalls and psns, as a means of furnishing inquiring 
visitors with such information as is often sought for in vain at our fairs 
They also favor exhibitors, enabling them to do a little cheap advertising, 
aud save themselves the answering of the same question to each new comer. 
They are highly prized by exhibitors, anil warmly commended by the 
pidilic wherever used. 

They are 11 x 14 inches- in size, and printed upon heavy nianilla stock, 
strong enough to stand the wind when tacked up. 

Price, 100, $1.00, -300, «i2.7.5. 



NAME OF ANIMAL. 

BREED. 

AGE. 

OWNER. 

RESIDENCE. 



TAKEN. 

By 

Address 

No 



-INSTALL NOTICES.HI- 

These notices, as shown in the margin are 1 x G inches in size, printed 
upon heavy cardboard, and are to be used by being tacked upon the stalls 
l>v parties to whom they are assigned, to keep out intruders. 

We keep them in stock, ready printed, u]ion manilla or colored canlboaid. 
Price, Manilla, 25 cents per IGO. Colored -ii) cents per 100. 




SUSPENSION RINGS. 

These rings are used to aid in bill posting. The lower part is gummed so 
that they can be stuck to the upper end of a bill, and then the ring will slip 
over a nail or tack, and suspend the bill. They will be found convenient to 
use in windows, rooms etc., where it is not desirable to put up bills with paste 
or tacks, and they -will hang longer than when tacked up. 

Price either kind, 100, 50 cents; 200, 00 cents; 500, $2.00. 




FRUIT LABELS. 

It is usual to require all fruits to be properly named and labeled. In order to enable this to be done conveniently, we 
furnish the names of the different varieties in general use, printed upon a slip of paper in bold faced type. These names are 
clipped apart with a shears and when upon the fruit, show the variety very plainly. They are gummed upon the back so that 
when inoistened with the mouth as with a postage stamp, they can be securely stuck to the fruit or plate containing it. 
Wc furnish labels for Apples, Peaches, Pears aud Grapes. 

Price Apples or Pears, per dozen, 13 cents, per 100 $1.00. 
" I'eaches or Grapes, " 10 " '• .60. 

POINT JUDGING OF LIVE STOCK. 

THIS, SYSTEM OF JUDGING, is so called from the fact that a cei'tain numerical value is given to each point of excellence which an animal possesses, 
and the aggregate of the point values taken to make up its total value. It was thoroughly tested in iSS6, and its efficiency fully demonstrated. Its increas- 
ing popularity is noticed on every hand, and its superiority is so great over the old want of system that it bids fair to soon have almost an universal adoption. 
To enable societies to act understandnigly in its use and furnish committeemen with the necessary facilities to work succesbfullv, we have published a pamphlet 

STANDARDS OF EXOELLENOE. FOR BREEDINa AND JUDGING LIVE STOCK AT FAIRS. 

Tliis pamphlet contains the standards of 
Cattle, — Shorthorn, Devons. Ayrshire, Herefords, Jerseys and Holstein. Sheep, — Merinos, Cotswold, Shropshire, and Southdowns. Swine, — 
Poland Chinas, Berkshires, and Chester Whites. Horses.— Roadsters, Carriage, Work Horses. Dairy Products,— Butter and Cheese. Fruit 
AND Farm Products. Price, Net, per Copy 50 cents. Three Copies ?i.oo. 

SCORE CARDS. 

To use tliis system it is necessary for societies to supply Judges with score cards, upon which to make tiieir estimates of anini.ils wliicli they examine. 

We keep in stock cards of the kind, fur eacli breed of animals for which a scale of points has been adopted. This card contains the standard of the breed 
and the full value of each point, a column in whicli to m.ike the Judge's value of the points in the animals judged, and a place for the signature of the pcrs( n 
making the e.tamination. Tliey aie printed upon cardboard adapted to use for such a purposes. 

Price, Net. Any of the breeds above, per dozen 15 cents, per 100, 5i.oo 

Tn making an order, the list of breeds above should be examined, and those selected upon which the Society offer premiums. 



Tin- F.\l!>r AM) V vin -TOriiN At i' ^>orlh many times Us vi 



■ and offltfiof a fai: 



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SUPPLIES FOR POULTRY SHOWS. 

The resemblance of Poultry Shows to (iiir Agricultural Fairs renders many of our goorls very appropriate for use at such 
exhibitions, as is testified to by many of their managers who use them. The following designates some of the chief articles 
among our supplies that such exhibitions arc using. 

-#^ PREMIUM LISTS. "(^ 

Our experience and facilities for getting out Premium Lists for Agricultural Fairs, fits us for making Lists for Poultry 
.shows. For Description of our Work, and Premium List ICnvelopes, Wrappers, etc., see page 23 of this Catalogue. 



IRA FOULHATCHER, 

Dear Sir: — Please make entries for me as follows: 



E'ilT,''^ CLASS. 



Name of Variety. 



Price, 

If for Sale. 



I size r.lanU li:is l."i line 



. Iddress 



ENTRY BLANKS. 

Entry Blanks are f urnisheil fur poultr3-men 
to make entries upon, as tliey are often at 
the agricultural fairs. 

In the illustration given, the Entry No. is 
filled by the Secretary when the entries are 
numbered upon the blanks, but where our 
Numerical Entry Books are used this column 
is unnecessary. 

Blanks of any description will be furn- 
ished to order. For prices sec Entry 
Blanks, page 11. 



-#H ENTRY BOOKS.#- 

Our Numerical Entry Books are \uisurpas.sed for PouUry .Sliows. They are used at all the leading shows of tlie country. 
AVe make an Especial Entry Book for these shows, so arranged that the scores of all the birds can be entered, if desired, and 
ill addition the names of all the standard varieties are printed in the book, so that the writing to prepare the books is 
unnecessary. Blank lines are left to enter additional varieties. 

PRICE, NET. $3.00. 

Coiiiiuittce Books. — Especially fur Poultry Shows, 2.5 cents each." 



^: ENTRY TAGS.ilH- 



O 



ENTRY TAG. 

No Class 

Name of Varicly 



Owned by... 
For Sale. 



Price. 



The accompanying diagram will give an 
illustration of tags used at Poultry Shows. 
For further description, prices, etc.. see 
pages 12 and lo. 

PREMIUM CARDS. 

For description and prices see jiages H 
aiul 1.".. 

ADMISSION TICKETS. 

For samples of diffiMcnt kind^ uf tickets 
.sec pages 2 to 0. 



POSTERS. 

.Sample posters and price lists will be issued in time to give ample opporlniiily to order for the winter shows for 1S87. 



SCORE CARDS. 

Score cards, for use at Poultry Sliows, adapted to any breed of fowls, l.'icts. per dozen. -iiil.OO per huiulre<l. 



Sprretnrieii of Poultry .Sliows will fliid nrtlrlrs all tlirousli UiIk Ciitali>sii« thnt will bo nsernl to them in conducting their exhibitiooi. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



GOODS FOR RACING ASSOCIATIONS. 

And the Speed Department of Agricultural Fairs. 
SPEED RECORDS. 

Managers of fair associations have long- felt the need of a cheap and convenient register, in which to keep a record of 
their races, and because of the expense of having such boolcs made to ordei-. lia\e been compelled to go without them. 

REGISTER NO. 1. 

To meet this want, we have published a register in which spaces are provided for entering the names of the horses, their 
color and sex, whom entered by, the name and residence of the owner, tlie entry fee, the position of the horses at the start, 
the colors the drivers wear, the position of tlie horses in the heats, the winners, and purses paid each, and for the names of 
the Judges. 

This is known as our No. 1 llegister, and is bound in strong, flexible covers. It lias lines for the entry of fifteen horses, 
and pages enough to contain eleven races, and is a very convenient cheap llegister. They have been published several years 
by us and are used by a majority of our patrons. 

Price, Net, 50 Cents. 

REGISTER NO. 2. 

We also make a larger and better bound Register, designed for the larger fairs and trotting courses. It has spaces for 
the same items to be entered aS our No. 1 Register, and additional spaces for the name of tlie driver, sire and dam of the 
animal, record of protests, fines, etc. It contains lines for eighteen entries in each race, and pages for fifteen races and is 
bound in stiff board covers. 

Price, Net, $1.00. 

No Society should attempt to conduct its races without a book in which to preserve an exact record of the speed contests, 
both for their own safety, and future information of themselves and interested horsemen. 

SPEED PROGRAMS. 

Racing Associations and Agricultural Societies usually have tlie program of their races, and conditions, with entry blank, 
printed upon a folder, just large enough to go easily into a common envelope. 

We furnish these programs, printed to order, with two, three or four leaves as may be desired, upon suitable colored paper, 
or upon light card board, and ornamented with appropriate Trotting and Running Cuts. For the character of these see 
accompanying samples. 

PRICES OF SPEED PROGRAMS. 

3 Leaf. 3 Leaf. 4 Leaf. 

300 Programs, §2.50 $3.00 13.50 

500 " 3.00 3.75 4 50 

1000 " 4.00 .5.00 6.00 

2000 " '. 5.50 7.00 8.50 

The above prices are for Programs on good paper stock. For light card board, prices are increased at the rate of S-.OO 
per thousand. 

Parties desiring Lithograph Folders, or special designs are requested to confer with us, and samples and prices will 
be furnished. 

ENTRY BLANKS FOR RACES. 

As tlie Rules of the National Trotting Association, and all Racing Associations require that all entries must be made in 
writing, entry blanks are indispensable. Besides this they will be fonnd convenient to enclose in circulars, or letters to 
hor.semen who are being solicited to make entries, and in taking entries. 

VARIETIES OF BLANKS. 

^^'e furnish entry blanks for races, in two different styles, as shown by our samples accompanying. 
SizK 1. — This blank is i\ x 7 inches, and is the form that has been in general use. 

Size "2. — This blank is 5 x 9J inches, and po.ssesses the additional advantage that entries of different horses can be made 
upon it, while with the other a blank would be necessary for each horse. 

PROGRAMS UPON ENTRY BLANKS. 

The back of the Entry Blank can be utilized by putting a program and advertisement of the races upon it, and the 
whole will form a convenient circular to be distributed among parties that are interested in or admirers of this class of sport. 

READY PRINT BLANKS. 

We keep entry blanks of each variety in stock, ready printed, having lilauks for the niairnig address, and name of 
Secretary, to be written in. 

PRICES OF ENTRY BLANKS. 

.">o 100 2.'iO .'>0(i luun 

\o. 1, Ready Print .25 40 75 1.25 2.00 

No. 2. " " .35 ,50 1.00 1.05 2..50 

Blanks printed to order witli name of society and name and address of secretary added to the ready print fm-ni, 35 cents 
per lot extra. 

Our entry blanks, in lots of 250 or less are put up in tablet form, and in larger orders, about one half in tal)lcts. 
With Pkogkams. — Blanks printed with circular, or program upon the back at $1.00 per lot, extra. 

X>o your business in a business way and practice economy as well by selecting: your outfit from our goods. 




Form 22.— OCTAGOX. 



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H-DGk County Fair 

RocKviLLE, Idaho, 
OCTOBER 3, 4, 5, 6, 1887. 

W. T, ROCKHILL, Secretary. 



Good 



.t Gates. Grand Stan 
Qua-tfr Stretch. 




Form 24.— SQIAIJIO ( LI1MM:I>. 



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immmimm 


^■©<o\my^^ Qlipb.. 


iJIompIimcntanj. 


ISSUED TO 


NOT TRANSFERABLE. 


Gii^TE. GRAND ST;^ND & QUj^RTER STRETCf) 


John Leich, Secretary. 



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UoD't defer making onlerit until tli«> ronilnu: ut' the fair compels you to have the f;oocU. Better order early and be equipped 

for butiiness when it comes. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



29 



HORSEMEN'S BAEXaES. 

It is customary for Societies to furnish the owners, drivers, and others connected witli race horses, with badges by which 
they can be identified and allowed to pass in at the gates, and upon the track, or quarter stretch at the time of the races. 

FORMS AND COLORS OF BADGES. 

The illustrations upon the opposite page show sis forms, either of which may be selected by our customers. The printed 
matter upon them is only to illustrate the different kinds. Societies ordering can have any printed matter they desire 
upon their badges. 

It is always desirable to have a different shape or color of card for each different purpose for which a badge is to be used, 
and each different kind ordered of us is s ) changed as to be readily distinguished from others in the same order. 



PRICES OF HORSEMEN'S BADGES. 

50 100 200 300 500 



1000 



2000 



Form 25. . - . . |l 75 fo 00 |2 25 $3 00 U 00 86 00 111 00 

Other Forms, - - - 1 50 1 75 2 00 2 50 3 50 5 00 9 00 

Colors — Red, Blue, Green, White, Yellow, and Salmon. 

Our Form twenty-five badge, is cut the sliape of a horse-shoe, by dies made expressly for the purpose, and the expense of 
cutting adds to their price. The other forms are all printed with the 1887, and iiorse-shoe tint, as per samples. 

STRINGING. 

All our badges have punched holes, through which they may be strung, so as to be hung by the cord in a visible place, 
from a button hole or upon tlie front of the coat or vest. 

Parties wlio order badges can have them strung by us, with colored twine, or with a fine quality of lieavy cord, adapted 
to the purpose. 

PRICE OF STRINGING, with Twine, per 100, 15cts; per 500, 50cts; per 1000, 7.5cts. 
with Cord, " 25cts ; " $1 00 ; " $1 50. 

Tlie strings are knotted at the end, and of a length sufficient to allow the cord to be put through the button hole, and 
have the badge passed through the strands and looped. 

BADGES FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 

Sometimes Societies wi.sh a form of ticket to use as a token of authority for admission for such purposes as Supply 
Wagons, Licensed Carriages, Season Team Tickets, and the like. In such cases, these forms, being different from the 
ordinary ticket, are very appropriate, and tickets will be made in any of the shapes, for any purpose for which they may be 
selected, at the prices given. 



No. 3 Roll Blackboard 



SIZE 3X4 FEET. 



BLACKBOARDS FOR RACES 

These Blackboards are mounted on Spring Rollers, to roll up like a map, 
protected from dust, when not in use. They are the cheapest and most durable 
blackboard in the market. Every Society needs such a board to hang out to 
announce the result of the heats in its races. 

PRICES, (i^Let.) 

No. 1, 2x3 feet, : : $1 00. 
No. 2, 2^x3.', feet, : : 1 50. 
No. 3, 3x4 feet, : : 2 00. 

JOCKEY CAPS. 

Our Jockey Caps are of the best quality, and made with elastic, to fit any head. 

PRICES, (net.) 

Satin Caps, $3 00 each ; .|30 00 per dozen. 
Flannel " 2 00 " 20 00 " 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 

National Trotting Rules — Last Edition, :::;:: 25 cents. 
American Running Rules :::::::::: 25 cents. 
Fairs Racing Rules, (Trotting and Running,) : : : : : 25 cents. 

Bills for our goods are payable by Draft, P. O. or Express Order No alluwaiue made lor Exchange or Expre 



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THE FAIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. 



OFFICE CONVENIENCES AND APPLIANCES. 

Prices of THesE Goods are NET, 




DOOK INDICATOR. 

Tliis device is intended to provi(]e an e.isy and convenient means of plaeini; announcements 
of various kinds upon doors of offices and business places. The c.ise is permanently attached to 
tlie outside of a door and provided with a series of cards, in book form, containing every quarter 
lionr of the day and several miscellaneous announcements such as, "Out of Town," "At Dinner," 
etc. When the door is closed the card cannot be removed or changed. 

I'UICK r>0 CENTS ISACH. 



PAPER CLIPS. 

;i/,e 1—15 X 3^ in 10 ets- 

" 2— 2Jx4|in 1.') cts. 

■ 3— 33 X 5J in 'i,5 cts. 

I'lie spring mechanism of these clips is the 

' ^t and simplest in use. They cannot get 

lit of repair. 



XOVELTY PAPER FASTENER. 

This instrument will be found convenient for binding 
papers of various kinds into books for filing, or for refer- 
ence. It is furnished complete w ith driver and clincher, 
and h.is -100 staples, assorted sizes. 

PRICE 50 Cents. 




DOOR IXDKATOIJ 



3/16 




Sizes of Stajiles 



TRANSFER FILE. 

Papers on this file may becon- 
vciiieully examined without re- 
moval, or removed and replaced 
without disarranging other pa- 
pers. 

PRICE, Sizesxc,, 25 Cents. 




TiOAIJD CLIPS. 



Spl.'udidly made and beaut 
fiillv liiii>hod. 




sfer rile. 



MUCKS: 

Walnut board. Nickel clip, Letter size, r-,0 cts ; Note, -10 ct 
Tar Board, " " '' " 45 cts; " 



COIN WRAPPERS. 

Treasurers will find these Wrappers a great convenience in taking care of the large amount of coin that accumulates during 
the fair. They are made from strong manilla paper, cut to correct sizes, printed with label showinj; what they contain, gummed, 
and ready to roll up the amounts designated. 

When coin is wrapped up in packages of convenient sums it can be paid out more freely .is it is not so objectionable as when 
in a loose state, and more accurately as it need not be hurriedly counted. 

The Wrappers are made of different sizes to accommodate dillercnt sizes of coin and will contain : 

Pennies 2.5c. Five-cent nickel, $1.00. Twenty-five cents, silver, $.5.00. Fifty cents, silver, JSIO.OO. 

2-cent pieces, .50c. Ten cents, silver $.").()0. Twenty-five cents, silver, flO.OO. Dollars, $20.00. 

We put these up in .n.ssorlcd packages, No. 1 containing ten wrappers of each kind; No. 2, twenty-five of each kind ; and 
No. 3, fifty of each kind. 

PRICE, No. I, '25 Cts. No. 2, 40 cts. No. 3, 75 cts. 



Any of our patrons wlio want i;oa<I" of t1>lH dans not fonnil In this ratalogrne lire requtstiil to wrrtc ns, (lesci-Iblng tliem anci 
will endeavor to furnlHh thcin. 



SIXTH ANNUAL CATALOGUE. 



31 



Secretaries and officers of fairs will find it greatly to their conveuieuce to have a ready pen at all times to use -when 
iillcd upon in the course of their business. 



I'oinI Cuv. r. 

We have selected the best pens in the market, and offer them with the assurance that they are fully as represented. 
These pens are made on the most approved principles, have superior workniansliip, and are filled with the best gold 
pens obtainalile. 

Priop, Tlie Cross Pen. •'^L'.Oi). The Wirt Pen, sl'.-'iO. 

STYLOGRAPH IC PENS. 

These pens carry a supply of ink for continuous writing the same as the Foiuiticiu Pea, but have a rigid point such lliat 
shading is impossible with them. They will be found very appropriate for work of making entrii's. and the like. 

XO. 1 STYLOGKAPHIC. 



Price, Pocket size, Platinum Point, ^2.00 
XO. :i STYLOOi; VPTITf. 



This is a good pen. but not so well finished as the Xo. 1. It is complete with point cover. 
Price, Plain Barrel, Pocket size iiiil.OO. Engraved Barrel %l:2'j. 




PEX RACKS. 

Tlie base is made sulliciently heavy for use without fastening and may be also 



'd as a pajier weight. 



Price 2.5 cents each. 



I>ATIXG .STAMPS. 

Secretaries and Treasurers who desire to date tickets when issue 
llieir .Seal to jint upon them to avoid counterfeits, will find these 
useful. 



l1, or to 
stamps 



3Ioi>i:l 15.^x1 > i>ati:k. 

' This stamp has the days months and years 

iin endless rubber bands, wliieh can be in- 
stantly brought into position by simply 
Inining the wheels from the outside. It will take a 
rubber die 1 J^ x 1| inches, from which the name of the 
Society is made to print. The dates always print in 
center of die. 



Ink 



Pill CI ;s. 

d Pads, s'.j 



with. 



With Di 

pads, i?2.(iit. 

ll.\lLUOAl) srA.>ip. 

This stamp is the same as fs in general use at our 
laihoad stations as a ticket stamp. The date wheels 
and die are made from hard brass. Tlie die is made 
lound, 1 'i inches in diameter. 

Price complete sT.dO. 
I'lKi'S include die cut to order witli name of sc ciety 
and inking ribbon. 



Model Dater,' 




Don't forget the Farm and Fair Journal. It is the best iuveelineut that ean be made of a like sum. 



32 



THE FAIR PUBLISHING HOUSE. 




LETTER FILES. 

Secretaries of I'airs liave, no doubt, often felt 
the want of soaiethiuf; cheap and convenient to 
use in filing the letters they receive. 

This is the cheapest and best popular file in 
the market. It has uo bothersome wires or 
sjirings, the index being otherwise securely fas- 
tened. It i.s strongly constrivcted and neatly 
fiMishrd in imitatiou leather and maibled paper 
an<l when clo.scd is dust proof The price is so 
ilicap that a new one can be alforded each year, 
mimI those of former years preserved as the pro- 
peily of the societj' with the cirrespoudence 
w ilhin lliem. 
PRICE, 75 Cents each. Will hold 300 Letters. 

Files of the .same character furnished for bills, 
with lettering upou the back designating Ihecon- 
tcnl.s. 



PORTFOLIO FILES. 

The I'lle shown by the accompanying illustration, uuule 
after the .style of a pocket book, will be found convenient 
where correspondence is not too large. It is made of the best 
nianilla stock. 

PRICE, Note Size, 40cts. Letter Size, 50'cts. 






I'rieos.— 1.«. i,u>c-, (i .\ 10, 75cts; 10 x 1-2, $1.00: 10 x 14, §l.i.-) 
Toll directions lor using accompany each book. 



PERFECT LETTER COPYING BOOK. 

Another convenience that Secretaries ouglil to deem mdisiicn.sable, is a letter 
f'oi)yiug Book, in^vbich to preserve a copy of the letters they send out. This is 
tlie simplest and cheapest Copy Book ever introduced. No pre.ss is requireil 
It will Coi)y with ordinary office ink. The process is to use a damp cloth to 
furuLsh moisture, and secure pressure by rolling the book in the hands. 

150 leaves fi x 10, $1.00; 10 x 12, ?l.:5i) ; 10xl4,fl.60 



No. 1 COPYING BOOK. 



Wc oOVr a Letter P.ook also, adapted to use in a Letter 1'ies.s. It is made water pr.iof at the binding and po 
a.lvantage of being provided with moistening pads and oil sheets, by the use of which a number of sheets can be kept 
r 'iidy for immediute use, dispensing entirely with water pot and bru.sh, and where vinly a limited amount of copying is 

ires nl.so. 

PRICES. 

Size, 10 X 1-2, .>00 pages $1.7.5 700 pages $:2.a."). 

Size, 10x14, .500 pages §2,25 700 pages ?3,00. 



ssesses the 
moist and 
done with 



To avoid errors or mlsuuilerDtaiKlliie-, uiio our Order lllanks to uiako ovU< I's ii|>< 



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--■ir BUSINESS RULES, l- 

All bills are payable at our office b_v draft, post-office or express order, for the full amount of the bill. 

TIME DISCOUNTS. — All fair goods ordered before May 1st, except tho.?c marked "net" in our price-list, are 
allowed a discount of five per cent, and all ordered before June 1st a di? count of tiieke per cent, and all before 
.July 1st a discount of two per cent. This discount is made to encourage early orders, as we have less work to do 
before these dates than when the fair season approaches near at hand, and it applies only to goods we are obliged to 
make to order, the price of other goods being the same at all times. 

CASH DISCOUNTS. — In addition to the time di.scount above, ne give a discount of five per cent for all orders 
made before duly 1st, which are accompanird by cash, or directed to be shipped C O. D. 

To be entitled to the discounts, the orders must be sent to r.s to be received within five days after the dates by 
which they are limited. 

EXCHANGE. — Our prices are for cash at our office, and buyers will not be allowed to deduct exchange, or cost 
of remittance from their bills, and, in case draft has to be made upon them to collect the bill, the cost of collection 
will be added to the draft. 

BIbbS PAYABLE ;AFTER TjHE F/rli^. 

Societies desiring such terms are furnished with goods, the bill being payable after their fair, no interest being 
added or increase in price being made on that account. In cnsc the bill is somewhat large, the Society's acceptance 
for the amount may be asked for. 

RESPONSIBILITY. — When credit is asked, we sell our goods to the officer who orders them for the Society he 
represents, with the understanding that the bill is first to be paid from their receipts, as soon as the fair is over, and 
the only responsibility we place upon him is to see that the bill is so paid, and orders asking for credit must be 
made with this understand ng. 

fREISjHT yVNO EXPF^ESS ©JHARQES. 

Our location is favorable to rapid transit, and the amount. of shi])ping' we do makes our Inisiuess very desirable 
to railroad and express companies, and to get it they favor us with their best rates. The rates from our city are as 
low as can be had from any city in the country. 

Though we pay no transportation charges ourselves, yet for the benefit of our customers we adopt the shipping 
lines that will get them their goods the cheapest, when any chance for choice exists. 

The best method of sending goods is generally by express, as it secures their sjieedy ai;d safe delivery ; but for 
packages of considerable size and weight, freight is much the cheaper, and when there is no hurry to use the goods 
this method is the betti r ; but the delays at transfer points, ai d slovr.cfs of the caiiiage renders it too uncertain to 
be relied upon when the time for the fair is approaching near at hand. 

When no method of sending is designated in an order, we send by express, unless the package is a heavy one, 
and there is enough time to get it through as soon as it will be wanted. 

The class of goods we make are carried by Express Companies, for publishers, at a sj)ccial, through 

PRINTED MATTER RATE, 
much lower than the regular tariff rate, and saving the extra charges made in going over the lines of different 
Express Companies. The lines of railroad and express that take our goods connect with all others, and safe and 
rapid transit is assured in all cases. 

The express charges on small packages, such as Entry Books, etc., to any point are usually from 1") to 25 
cents, and few packages exceed 50 cents. On account of our special publishers' rate, we can ship the average 
package of our goods to any point in the Middle States, or east of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, so that the 
price of the delivery will rarely exceed f 1.00. 

The price of our goods include packing and delivering them on board the cars, but does not include the cost of 
transmission to their destination. 

f^ECEIfTS fOR JV10JS1EY. 

Every sum of money received by us is promptly credited to the sender and its receipt acknowledged by return 
mail. Those who send money, the receipt for which is not received within a reasonable time, are requested to notify 
us of the fact. 

SHIffIN© BIbbS. 

Upon every shipment, notice of the same is sent to the consignee, stating the fact, and the route by which sent, 
and when such a notice is received and the goods do not arrive in due time, we should be notified of the fact, in order 
to trace their whereabouts and hasten their delivery. As soon as an crder is fully filled the customer is furnished 
with an itemized bill of the same. 

ERF^ORS IJM PRIJMTIN©. 
y. The advisability of ordering goods of our house is increased by the fact that we are so familiar with this class of 
work that we can avoid the errors of inexperienced printers, and where proper caution has been taken in ordering, 
so that the fault is properly with us, all errors made in getting out goods for our customers, if requiring it, will be 
made good by supplying other goods in their place, free of charge to the customer, but no deduction in price will be 
allowed where the goods are used unless we are notified of the error as soon as the goods are received. We guarantee 
FULL COUNT in all cases, and any shortage that is found should be reported at once. 




LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



002 745 962 6 # 

GENERAL* INSTRUCT10NS*T0*CUST0MERS. * 

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Order Blanks are furnished with this Catalogue, and should be used in making the order, as they ai. 
explicit, and will aid in making the order understandingly. A copy of tiie items made in the order should be retaint' I 

Order Early — you can get a hanclsome discount by so <loing. It gives us a chance to get out the woi 
before liie rush comes, and, if correspondence is necessary to explain any portion of it, there will be time for it. i 
you don't want the goods shijiped before a specified time, they will be held by us until the named date. 

Furnish Copy. Any of our regular goods can l)e ordered from the form number, as given in tin- 
Catalogue, if the names and dates to be used instead of those upon the form, are given us, but, when anything 
special is wanted, it is best to send outline copy of it. If you have an old ticket or printed foriu similar to what 
you want, send it, or the sample cards we send will answer as copy, by cro.«sing out the printing not wanted, and 
interlining tiiat to take its place. 

Write Plainly. Too much caution cannot be given about the plain writing of proper names, and 
directions about an order. If your letter head does not give them, send something that has name- and dates printed 
upon it, if you have it, such a.s a premium list or program. 

Dont M utilate this Catalogue by cutting out the illustrations to send us as copy. Either draw something 
like it witii a pencil, or rel'er to it by the number of the form, and it will be as intelligible to us as it can be made 
by destroying the Catalogue. 

What to Order. When you do not find the goods you want described in this Catalogue, or are in doubt 
about tiie character or a])plication of any of our supplies, write us and let us know about it, and we will endeavor 
to satisfy you. If we do not have what you want we will no doubt be able to make it, or know where it can he 
found. 

In some instances Secretaries are inexperienced, and write us to send them such an outfit as we deem l)est 
adapted to tlieir fair. remar,>ing that we know what tiiey need better than tiiey. We are always willing to aid our 
customers in every way possible, and give them the benefit of our experience, but advise in such cases, that as 
complete a list as tliey can make, of goods they suppose they want, be sent, or of such as have been used by 
their Society, in former years. 

Parties who expect to order Entry Books, but do not know what kind are best suited for them, if they will send 
us iheir premium li.st, and the probable number of entries they will have, will be furnished with our judgment aj« to 
the Selection, by return mail. 

In ordering tickets, don't make the number too small. A few extra only costs a small sum, and it is always 
much preferable to have a few too many than not enough. 

Paying Bills. We furnish goods cheerfully to our customers who are responsible, and wait until their 
fair is over for the ])ay, and a proper return of the courtesy requires a payment of the bill at as early a day after the 
fair is over, as the money can be sent. Those who want such a credit should .so state it with the order, in order that 
we may know tlieir intent ons as to payment, and not bother them with statements before the account will be due. 

Dates of Fair. If the dates of your fair have not already been furnished us, they should be, in order 
that we may know how soon the goods are needed. 

Inquiries. We have an extended experience in conducting fairs, and excellent opportunities for observing 
the meliiods of others, and secretaries who wish our judgment upon any matter over which they are in doubt, can 
have it upon application. Inquiries pertinent to the fair business will be cheerfully and promptly answered at all 
times. 

Address orders and communications to 

THE FAIR PUBLISHING HOUSE, 

2<TC>-^l-S7^.iL.X^1^, OHIO. 



ATTRACTIONS. 



If you want an attraction of any kind to aid in drawing a crowd to, and enhancing an interest in your fair, we 
can aid you in securing one. We act as agent for several parties who are exhibiting attractions at fairs, and will 
have the ar augement of their dates for the season. 



